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Statistics,Charts,Graphs - May Only

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by Unknown June 10, 2011


US Unemployment Rate 9.1% in May 1


↑Black Unemployment Rate 16.2%1

Race

SEX

AGE GROUP

Rate

African-American

Men

20 years and over

17.5%

African-American

Women

20 years and over

13.4%

African-American

Both included

16 to 19 years

40.7%




Links:

Black Employment and Unemployment~UC Berkeley Labor Center
Provides a combined chart that includes unemployment statistics by sex of all blacks over 15 years of age.

Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race ...
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)


Nonfarm Payrolls~Briefing.com

Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization for States
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)



Notes:

(1)Seasonally Adjusted (SA) Unemployment Rate
for MAy 2011

This month different sources and types of charts will appear.
Here is the "May 2011 List" (subject to shrink or grow):
  1. US Unemployment By County~Washington Post
  2. US Unemployment
    Black or African American(Upper) vs White(Lower)

    3. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS
    U.S. President period(s) are provided below
    only where data was available for both groups: 

    Richard Nixon                Jan 20, 1972 - Aug  9, 1974
             Gerald Ford                  Aug  9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977
             Jimmy Carter                 Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981
             Ronald Reagan                Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 
             George H. W. Bush            Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993
             Bill Clinton                 Jan 20, 1993 - Jan 20, 2001 
             George W. Bush               Jan 20, 2001 - Jan 20, 2009
             Barack Obama                 Jan 20, 2009
  3. US Black Unemployment for Teens : 1972 thru 2011



    BLS data was used to compute min and max values for each year reported
  4. Black Unemployment At Depression Level Highs In Some Cities~Janell Ross, huffingtonpost.com
  5. Presidential approval tracker~usatoday.com
  6. GDP
    1. GDP: Economic recovery stumbles~money.cnn.com
    2. US GDP 1970 -2011[Corporate Profits are part of GDP calculation]

      ~3.bp.blogspot.com
  7. US Budget 1970 - 2011
    ~3.bp.blogspot.com


  8. Daily Oil Prices~prices-oil.org
  9. Corporate Taxes~demos.org
  10. Truth in Journalism
    1. The legend of the persecuted white guy~by David Sirota,Salon.com
    2. US unemployment: The bad news the US jobs figures hide~bbc.co.uk
      The above article from the BBC may explain why it might be hard to get
      most blacks to take on "shovel ready" jobs.
    3. EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS:
      Let's Tell The Whole Story      ~National Jobs For All Coalition,njfac.org
      4. Caution:You may want to go back and recompute U6 for some or any charts included here on US Black Unemployment (above).
      See next link below for more details. If you do so, please feel free to comment below and include the derived values obtained and or method that might be useful to predict what U6 looks like for Black Unemployment in the US.
    4. Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization for States~bls.gov
  11. The Congressional Black Congress

Related link(s):
(1)Corporate America's Relationship With China Worries Small Business~huffingtonpost.com

(2)5 government statistics you can't trust~msnbc.msn.com

(3)How To Lie With Statistics~en.wikipedia.org

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