AUGUST 2015 Unemployment Data — the Full Count*
\n(U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS)<\/p>\n
OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 5.1%*
\nWhite: 4.4%
\nAfrican American: 9.5%
\nHispanic: 6.6%
\nAsian**: 3.5%
\nPersons with a disability**: 10.2%
\nMen 20 years and over: 4.7%
\nWomen 20 years and over: 4.7%
\nTeens (16-19 years): 16.9%
\nBlack teens: 31.3%
\nOfficially unemployed: 8.0 million<\/p>\n
*If the LFPR were at its pre-recession level, the unemployment rate in August 2015 would have been 7.2% instead of 5.1%. [See “The Labor Force Participation Rate and Its Trajectory”]<\/p>\n
HIDDEN UNEMPLOYMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n Working part-time because can’t find a full-time job: 6.5 million Source: http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AUGUST 2015 Unemployment Data — the Full Count* (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS) OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 5.1%* White: 4.4% African American: 9.5% Hispanic: 6.6% Asian**: 3.5% Persons with a disability**: 10.2% Men 20 years and over: 4.7% Women 20 years and over: 4.7% Teens (16-19 years): 16.9% Black teens: 31.3% Officially unemployed: 8.0 million *If the… Read More Unemployment Data: August 2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,49,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-of-monthly-unemployment-data","category-current-rate","category-unemployment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPeople who want jobs but are not looking so are not counted in official statistics (of which about 1.8 million** searched for work during the prior 12 months and were available for work during the reference week.): 5.9 million
\nTotal: 20.4 million (12.5% of the labor force)<\/p>\n