Employment-Population Ratio, Part Time Workers, Unemployed over 26 Weeks

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Employment-Population Ratio

This graph shows the employment-population ratio; this is the ratio of employed Americans to the adult population.

Note: the graph doesn't start at zero to better show the change

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Part Time for Economic Reasons

The number of workers only able to find part time jobs (or have had their hours cut for economic reasons) was at 8.63 million in June. This slight decline was a little bit of good news.

The all time record of 9.24 million was set in October.

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Unemployed over 26 Weeks

According to the BLS, there are 6.751 million workers who have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks and still want a job. This is a record 4.39% of the civilian workforce. (note: records started in 1948). It does appear the increases are slowing ... perhaps because people are giving up.

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Employment-Population Ratio

Part Time Workers

Unemployed over 26 Weeks

Friday, July 02, 2010

by CalculatedRisk on 7/02/2010 09:53:00 AM

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