It looks like we’ve finally recovered from the Great Recession, and there are even claims of record-low unemployment in several U.S. states. Of course claims like that make my data-radar go off, and I wanted to see the numbers for myself. And it’s a gr…
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Several ways to look at US unemployment data
The US unemployment rate was down to 4.4% in April, which is the lowest we’ve seen since before the big recession (about 10 years ago). But a single number seldom tells the whole story, so let’s look at unemployment data in several different ways, to g…