The Economics Daily

Bureau of Labor Statistics

The latest Economics Daily article is available here: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2021/15-7-percent-of-people-who-worked-or-looked-for-work-experienced-unemployment-in-2020.htm. Highlights are below. 15.7 percent of people who worked or looked for work experienced unemployment in 2020 12/17/2021 The work-experience unemployment rate (those looking for work during the year as a percent of those who worked or looked for work during the year) nearly doubled, increasing from 8.0 percent in 2019 to 15.7 percent in 2020. This is the highest rate since 2010, when it was 15.9 percent. HTML

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