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Unemployment rate in August 2007

September 11, 2007

The number of unemployed and the unemployment rate held at 7.1 million and 4.6 percent, respectively, in August.

Unemployment rate, August 2006-August 2007
[Chart data—TXT]

The unemployment level and rate were little changed from a year earlier.

In August, the unemployment rates for adult men (4.1 percent), adult women (4.1 percent), teenagers (16.1 percent), whites (4.2 percent), blacks (7.7 percent), and Hispanics (5.5 percent) showed little or no change.

These data are from the Current Population Survey program and are seasonally adjusted. To learn more, see "The Employment Situation: August 2007" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 07-1363.

SUGGESTED CITATION

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Unemployment rate in August 2007 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2007/sept/wk2/art02.htm (visited March 19, 2024).

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