{"id":281707,"date":"2010-02-05T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75857"},"modified":"2010-02-05T09:59:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:59:08","slug":"white-women-push-jobless-rate-down-to-9-7-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/281707","title":{"rendered":"White Women Push Jobless Rate Down to 9.7 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good news: Officially the nation&#8217;s unemployment rate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/06\/business\/economy\/06jobs.html?hp\" >fell<\/a> to 9.7 percent in January, down from 10 percent in December.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news: That figure ignores (1) those working part time who&#8217;d rather be working full time, and (2) those who&#8217;ve simply stopping looking for work altogether. Also, most worker groups saw little or no improvement in their situation. <span id=\"more-75857\"><\/span>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\" >Department of Labor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Unemployment rates for most major worker groups &#8212; adult men (10.0 percent), teenagers (26.4 percent), blacks (16.5 percent), and Hispanics (12.6 percent) &#8212; showed little change. The jobless rate for adult women fell to 7.9 percent, and the rate for whites declined to 8.7 percent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This combination of factors leads to this bit of tricky math: Even while January&#8217;s jobless <em>rate<\/em> fell by 0.3 percent, the <em>number<\/em> of unemployed workers rose by 20,000 &#8212; representing a shrinking work-force as folks throw in the towel and exit the labor pool. In fact, the number of people who have been jobless for more than 27 weeks hit another all-time high of 6.3 million in January &#8212; 183,000 higher than December and 5 million more since the start of the recession in December 2007. As <a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_pMscxxELHEg\/S0dSamkpncI\/AAAAAAAAHNU\/8xA6hqTts6c\/s1600-h\/UnemployedOver26Weeks.jpg\" >this graph<\/a> from Calculated Risk points out, that&#8217;s a problem unprecedented in recent history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/UnemployedOver26Weeks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-75858\" title=\"UnemployedOver26Weeks\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/UnemployedOver26Weeks-480x292.jpg\" alt=\"UnemployedOver26Weeks\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news: Officially the nation&#8217;s unemployment rate fell to 9.7 percent in January, down from 10 percent in December. The bad news: That figure ignores (1) those working part time who&#8217;d rather be working full time, and (2) those who&#8217;ve simply stopping looking for work altogether. Also, most worker groups saw little or no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}