Tag: unemployment

Lowest unemployment since 1976?

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…

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…