The official “seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all Black workers (youth, male and female) in the United States was still 12.5 percent in November 2013; while the official jobless rate for Black male workers over 20 years-of-age was still 12.3 percent during that same month, according to recently released Bureau of Labor Statistics data. In addition, between October and November 2013, the number of Black male workers over 20 years-of-age still in the U.S. labor force decreased by 13,000 (from 8,377,000 to 8,364,000); while the official unemployment rate for Black female workers over 20 years-of-age was still 11.1 percent in November 2013.
The official “seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Black youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 35.8 percent in November 2013; while the number of Black youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age who still had jobs dropped by 12,000 (from 444,000 to 432,000) between October and November 2013. In addition, the number of Black youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age still in the U.S. labor force decreased by 21,000 (from 693,000 to 672,000) during the same period.
The jobless rate for white youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 18.6 percent in November 2013; while the number of white youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age still in the U.S. labor force decreased by 16,000 (from 4,578,000 to 4,562,000) between October and November 2013..
The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Latino youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 23.9 percent in November 2013; while the number of Latino youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age who still had jobs decreased by 4,000 (from 821,000 to 817,000) between October and November 2013. In addition, the number of Latino youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age still in the U.S. labor force decreased by 55,000 (from 1,130,000 to 1,075,000) during the same period.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Latina female workers over 20 years-of-age increased from 8.1 to 8.2 percent between October and November 2013; while the number of unemployed Latina female workers over 20 years-of-age increased by 26,000 (from 800,000 to 826,000) during the same period.
According to the “seasonally adjusted” data, the official jobless rate for all Latino workers (male, female and youth) was still 8.7 percent in November 2013; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Latino male workers over 20 years-of-age was still 7.7 percent during that same month.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Asian-American workers in the United States increased from 5.2 to 5.3 percent between October and November 2013; while the number of unemployed Asian-American workers in the United States increased by 14,000 (from 443,000 to 457,000) during the same period.
The official “seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for white male workers over 20 years-of-age was still 6 percent in November 2013; while the official “seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for white female workers over 20 years-of-age was still 5.3 percent during that same month.
In November 2013, the official “seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 20.8 percent; while the official jobless rate for all female workers over 16 years-of-age in the United States was still 6.7 percent during that same month. In addition, the official unemployment rate for all male workers over 16 years-of-age in the United States was still 7.3 percent in November 2013. And between October and November 2013, the number of youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age still in the U.S. labor force decreased by 28,000 (from 5,713,000 to 5,685,000); while the number of youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age not in the U.S. labor force increased by 17,000 (from 11,008,000 to 11,025,000) during the same period.
The official “seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all female workers over 20 years-of-age was still 6.2 percent in November 2013; while the official “seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all male workers over 20 years-of-age was still 6.7 percent during that same month.
In November 2013, the official “seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all U.S. workers was still 7 percent in November 2013; while the official total number of workers in the United States who were still jobless during that same month was 10,907,000.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ December 6, 2013 press release:
“…The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was essentially unchanged at 4.1 million in November. These individuals accounted for 37.3 percent of the unemployed…The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) fell by 331,000 to 7.7 million in November. These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job…
“In November, 2.1 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force…These individuals…wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey…Among the marginally attached, there were 762,000 discouraged workers in November…Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them…
“…Nursing care facilities lost jobs (-4,000)…Federal government employment continued to decline (-7,000) in November…Employment in…mining and logging, wholesale trade, information, and financial activities showed little or no change in November…The change in total nonfarm payroll employment…for October was revised from +204,000 to +200,000…”
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