DECEMBER 2015 Unemployment Data–the Full Count* (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS) OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 5.0%* White 4.5% African American 8.3% Hispanic 6.3% Asian** 4.0% Persons with a disability** 10.3% Men 20 years and over 4.7% Women 20 years and over 4.4% Teens (16-19 years) 16.1% Black teens 23.7% Officially unemployed 7.9 million *If… Read More Unemployment Data – December 2015
NOVEMBER 2015 Unemployment Data–the Full Count* (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS) OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 5.0%* White 4.3% African American 9.4% Hispanic 6.4% Asian** 3.9% Persons with a disability** 12.1% Men 20 years and over 4.7% Women 20 years and over 4.6% Teens (16-19 years) 15.7% Black teens 23.7% Officially unemployed 7.9 million *If… Read More Unemployment Data – November 2015
Coalition Work and Activities Where Are Today’s Mass Movements? What we can learn from the millions who demonstrated for jobs, government relief, and collective bargaining rights in the 1930s. Goldberg, Dollars and Sense, J/F 2015 Greg Heires’ Blog Jobs for All for Goes to Washington! video Hear the Voices of the Unemployed! Conference: An Economic… Read More Recent work of NJFAC
Minimum rate between January 2007 and May 2015: 23.1% in April 2015 Maximum Rate: 57.2% in June 2013 Source: BLS http://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/LNU04000019 Unemployment Rates – 16-19 yrs. Black or African American Men Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Black men 16-19 Unemployment Rates 1972-2014, Series Id: LNU04000019 Data are not seasonally adjusted [NSA].
by Trudy Goldberg, Chair, National Jobs for All Coalition Another strategy to reduce unemployment is to reduce work time. This can be done by decreasing the length of the work day or increasing the number of vacation days. This strategy has been proposed as a means of dealing with chronic unemployment or of reducing mass… Read More Supply-Side Measures: Reduced Work Time
