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| US jobless data: how has unemployment changed under Obama? | US jobless data: how has unemployment changed under Obama? |
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| The US jobless figures are out today and show American unemployment pretty much uncahnged at 8.3% - nearly down to the 8.2% Barack Obama inherited in February 2009. | |
| The US added another 277,000 jobs last month, and there are now 12.8m unemployed people in the States - 0.8% -points below the rate in August last year. | |
| The official data shows: | The official data shows: |
• The unemployment rate has declined by 0.8%-points since August • The unemployment rate for men is />• Rates for other groups are: Women, 7.7% Teenagers, />White, />Black, />Hispanic, />Asian, />• The number of long-term unemployed (for 27 weeks or more) was | • 12.8m people are unemployed • The unemployment rate has declined by 0.8%-points since August • The unemployment rate for men is unchanged at 7.7% in February />• Rates for other groups are: Women, 7.7% Teenagers, 23.8%, up slightly />White, 7.3% />Black, 14.1%, up from 13.6% last month, the biggest change of any group />Hispanic, 10.7% />Asian, 6.3% />• The number of long-term unemployed (for 27 weeks or more) was down very slightly to 5.4m and accounted for 42.6% of unemployed people |
| No US president since FDR has won an election with unemployment this high. This shows what's happened since January 2009, when President Obama took over: | No US president since FDR has won an election with unemployment this high. This shows what's happened since January 2009, when President Obama took over: |
| Data released this week by the Labor Department showed 362,000 Americans claiming unemployment insurance, an increase of 8,000 from the previous week's figure. | |
| We've mapped the unemployment data by state - you can explore it here. It goes up to December last year because we're waiting for updated state by state figures next week: | |
| You can download the full data below. What can you do with it? | You can download the full data below. What can you do with it? |
| Data summary | Data summary |
| US unemployment by state | US unemployment by state |
| Click heading to sort table. Download this - and more - data | Click heading to sort table. Download this - and more - data |
| Latest state data (more coming out next week). Percentages are % of labor force (seasonally adjusted) unemployed, aged 16 and over | |
| SOURCE: BLS | SOURCE: BLS |
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