Unemployment Rate Facts
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UPDATED: Saturday, September 5, 2026 13:19
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This Table of Data, where I included the Margin of Gain for Labor Force, and Margin of Gain for Actually Fully Employed:
I will refer to this set of data as Table JSF-URF-4
I will post some actual numbers and let the comparisons and discussion follow.
The BLS uses both Seasonally Adjusted figures and Unadjusted figures, and interchanges them without clearly identifying so. I will use only the Unadjusted numbers, to help maintain clarity and transparency.
Some numbers may have a 0 placed as first digit, to maintain column form in this format.
The 1st column of numbers is the unemployed.
The 2nd column is what is called Marginally Attached to the Labor Force, which is included in the Want A Job Now category but NOT included in the Labor Force category and therefore excluded from the reported Unemployment category.
The 3rd column is the Involuntary Part-Time workers, who are Not Employed Full Time due to poor Economy, and want, are able to work FT.
The 4th column is the sum of the first 3 columns. 5th column is the Rate for column 4 figure, with Labor Force as the denominator.
The 6th column of numbers is the Subtotal of columns 1 and 3, Unemployed plus Involuntary Part-Time.
The 7th column is Labor Force minus column 6. This is also Employed minus column 3 Involuntary Part-Time. This is not a figure identified by BLS, so I will call it Actually Fully Employed. This is Employed Full-time plus Voluntary Part-Time.
Not listed, but Civilian noninstitutional Population minus Actually Fully Employed is also a figure avoided by BLS, and I will call it Not Fully Employed, which is Unemployed plus Involuntary Part-Time plus Marginally Attached plus Not In Labor Force. The 8th column is Not Fully Employed Rate, which is divided by Civilian noninstitutional Population.
The 9th column is the Civilian Population. 10th column is Labor Force, 11th column is Participation Rate.
The 12th column is Marginal Labor Force Rate. This percent is the gain of the Labor Force divided by the gain of the Civilian noninstitutional Population.
The 13th column is the Marginal Actual Fully Employed Rate. This percent is the gain in the Actual Fully Employed divided by the gain of the Civilian noninstitutional Population.
Figures in thousands.
MoYr Unem MrgAt InvPT Total Prct SubTtl AcEmpl NtEm CivPop LbrForc Prtc% MgLF MgAE
Ja94 09492 2120 4963 16575 12.8 14455 114938 41.3% 195953 129393 66.0 +101.5
Ja95 08101 1783 4620 14504 11.1 12721 117923 40.4% 197753 130698 66.1 +072.5 +165.8
Ja96 08270 1737 4103 14110 10.7 12373 119023 40.4% 199634 131396 65.8 +037.1 +058.5
Ja97 07933 1615 4338 13886 10.3 12271 122046 39.7% 202285 134317 66.4 +110.2 +114.1
Ja98 07069 1479 4090 12638 09.3 11159 124798 38.9% 204238 135951 66.6 +083.7 +140.9
Ja99 06604 1358 3645 11607 08.4 10249 127694 38.2% 206719 137943 66.7 +080.3 +116.7
Ja00 06316 1197 3355 10868 07.8 09671 129950 37.8% 208782 139621 66.9 +081.3 +109.4
Ja01 06647 1290 3559 11496 08.2 10206 130843 38.0% 210889 141049 66.9 +067.8 +042.4
Ja02 08935 1509 4249 14693 10.4 13184 127890 40.0% 213089 141074 66.2 +001.1 --134.2
Ja02 09051 1532 4453 15036 10.5 13504 129724 40.1% 216506 143228 66.2 +038.8 --019.9
Ja03 09395 1598 5003 15996 11.0 14398 130903 40.5% 219897 145301 66.1 +061.1 +034.8
Ja04 09144 1670 5152 15966 10.9 14296 131772 40.7% 222161 146068 65.7 +033.9 +038.4
Ja05 08444 1804 4793 15041 10.2 13237 133888 40.5% 224837 147125 65.4 +039.5 +079.1
Ja06 07608 1644 4513 13765 09.2 12122 136978 39.8% 227553 149090 65.5 +072.3 +113.8
Ja07 07649 1577 4620 13846 09.1 12269 139655 39.5% 230650 151924 65.9 +091.5 +086.4
Ja08 08221 1729 5235 15185 09.9 13456 139372 40.1% 232616 152828 65.7 +046.0 --014.4
Ja09 13009 2130 8675 23814 15.5 21684 131761 43.9%
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The shadowstats site is lean on actual data, requiring a subscription to access what it claims as database.
However, I will make attempt to add in some of the data it presents. This does make assumption that their methodology and counting methods are valid, which I cannot find clear information about.
There also may be comingling of Seasonally Adjusted figures from shadowstats without clarity, but this will be the only series of Tables I post which veer from Not Seasonally Adjusted figures.
The charts they present do show that Unemployment under Trump is better than any time under Obamanomics, so it may be a worthwhile endeavor to investigate.
I will refer to this set of data as Table JSF-URF-5
I will post some actual numbers and let the comparisons and discussion follow. The documented shenanigans of Obamabots deliberately refusing to Report jobless data in the months before the 2012 Election are a different matter, I will just use the Fake Data they produced and pretend it was real.
The 1st column of numbers is the unemployed. The 2nd column is the Rate.
The 3rd column is the sum of the Unemployed plus Marginally Attached plus Involuntary Part-time. 4th column is the Rate for column 3 figure. The Rates in columns 2 and 4 have the denominator of Labor Force.
The 5th column is the Civilian Population. 6th column is Labor Force, 7th column is Participation Rate. 8th column is the published U-6 figure.
The 9th column is the Real Unemployment figure, as presented by shadowstats. The 10th column is the underreported, the difference between the U-6 figure from BLS and the Real figure from shadowstats.
Figures in thousands.
MoYr Unem Pcnt Total Prcnt CivPop LbrForc Prtc% U6% Real Separation
Ja93 09911 07.9 16575 12.8 192644 126034 65.4
Ja94 09492 07.3 16575 12.8 195953 129393 66.0 12% 15.3% 2.3%
Ja95 08101 06.2 14504 11.1 197753 130698 66.1 10% 13.5% 3.5%
Ja96 08270 06.3 14110 10.7 199634 131396 65.8 10.8% 13.5% 2.7%
Ja97 07933 05.9 13886 10.3 202285 134317 66.4 10.4% 13% 2.6%
Ja98 07069 05.2 12638 09.3 204238 135951 66.6 09.3% 12% 2.7%
Ja99 06604 04.8 11607 08.4 206719 137943 66.7 08.5% 11.5% 3.0%
Ja00 06316 04.5 10868 07.8 208782 139621 66.9 07.8% 11% 3.2%
Ja01 06647 04.7 11496 08.2 210889 141049 66.9 08.1% 10.5% 2.4%
Ja02 08935 06.3 14693 10.4 213089 141074 66.2 10.5% 13% 2.5%
Ja02 09051 06.3 15036 10.5 216506 143228 66.2 10.5% 13% 2.5%
Ja03 09395 06.5 15996 11.0 219897 145301 66.1 11.0% 13% 2.0%
Ja04 09144 06.3 15966 10.9 222161 146068 65.7 10.9% 14% 3.1%
Ja05 08444 05.7 15041 10.2 224837 147125 65.4 10.2% 13% 2.8%
Ja06 07608 05.1 13765 09.2 227553 149090 65.5 09.2% 12% 2.8%
Ja07 07649 05.0 13846 09.1 230650 151924 65.9 09.1% 12% 2.9%
Ja08 08221 05.4 15185 09.9 232616 152828 65.7 09.9% 13% 3.1%
Ja09 13009 08.5 23814 15.5 234739 153445 65.4 15.4% 20% 4.6%
Ja10 16147 10.6 27847 18.2 236832 152957 64.6 18.0% 22% 4.0%
Ja11 14937 09.8 26764 17.5 238704 152536 63.9 17.3% 22.5% 5.2%
Ja12 13541 08.8 25097 16.4 242269 153485 63.4 16.2% 22.5% 6.3%
Ja13 13181 08.5 24130 15.6 244663 154794 63.3 15.4% 23% 7.6%
Ja14 10855 07.0 21064 13.6 246915 154381 62.5 13.5% 23.5% 10%
Ja15 09498 06.1 18857 12.1 249723 156050 62.5 12.0% 23.5% 11.5%
Ja16 08309 05.3 16632 10.6 252397 157347 62.3 10.5% 23% 12.5%
Ja17 08149 05.1 16028 10.1 254082 158676 62.5 10.1% 23% 12.9%
Ja18 07189 04.5 14222 08.9 256780 160037 62.3 08.9% 22% 13.1%
Fb18 07091 04.4 13934 08.6 256934 161494 62.9 08.6% 21.9% 13.3%
Mr18 06671 04.1 13100 08.1 257097 161548 62.8 08.1% 21.8% 13.7%
Ap18 05932 03.7 11925 07.4 257272 161280 62.7 07.4% 21.5% 14.1%
My18
All I've got to say about it is personal experience man.
When I was only 19, I went to an "office temp agency" two of my lady friends had gone to, where it was immediately commented by the women who worked there that I had excellent typing skills for a guy. They landed me a job immediately the next day paying $11.00/hr, (to which my boss was paying them an extra $4/hr) back when gas was under a buck a gallon. It was only supposed to be a temporary position helping them convert old account information from a crappy piece of software to QuickBooks Pro. In the following week, they had two other offers for me at $12 and $13 each, and I hadn't had more than about 6 months of college at that point. I had a good feeling about where I was at and I stayed there though, and a week later my boss pulled me into his office and said "hey kid, you want a full time job?"
By the time his outfit was shut down because he was somehow tied to the George Ryan scandal, I was making $15/hr, and there were several weeks there where I worked over 100 hours a week with time and a half benefits. According to the SSA website, the year that I was 20 going on 21 years old was the 4th highest earning year of my life.
Enter GWB and the 20 year stagnation of wages that followed...
Fast forward to 2018.
There's no such thing as "Office Temp Agencies" anymore. They're gone. Now they're just umbrella agencies that offer close to minimum wage for any of the various types of work.
I make 50 cents more an hour now than I did when I was 19, it's part time work and there are no insurance or other benefits. Everything is extremely more expensive today than it was 20 years ago, especially healthcare.
I'm lucky to have the job considering my last job was only a buck over national minimum wage with the overnight shift differential and even though I was given the employee of the month at one point, nobody got a single cent for a raise. I spent 2 1/2 years there.
When I do my 2018 income tax forms next year, that will mark the first time since I was laid off in late 2009 that I have collectively made what I used to make in a single year when I was laid off. It will have taken me 8 years to make what I used to make in a single year.
According to the Unemployment stats, all is as it was though. I'm employed. That's all that matters to the stats.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Weird employment anecdotes:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
All I've got to say about it is personal experience man.
When I was only 19, I went to an "office temp agency" two of my lady friends had gone to, where it was immediately commented by the women who worked there that I had excellent typing skills for a guy. They landed me a job immediately the next day paying $11.00/hr, (to which my boss was paying them an extra $4/hr) back when gas was under a buck a gallon. It was only supposed to be a temporary position helping them convert old account information from a crappy piece of software to QuickBooks Pro. In the following week, they had two other offers for me at $12 and $13 each, and I hadn't had more than about 6 months of college at that point. I had a good feeling about where I was at and I stayed there though, and a week later my boss pulled me into his office and said "hey kid, you want a full time job?"
By the time his outfit was shut down because he was somehow tied to the George Ryan scandal, I was making $15/hr, and there were several weeks there where I worked over 100 hours a week with time and a half benefits. According to the SSA website, the year that I was 20 going on 21 years old was the 4th highest earning year of my life.
Enter GWB and the 20 year stagnation of wages that followed...
Fast forward to 2018.
There's no such thing as "Office Temp Agencies" anymore. They're gone. Now they're just umbrella agencies that offer close to minimum wage for any of the various types of work.
I make 50 cents more an hour now than I did when I was 19, it's part time work and there are no insurance or other benefits. Everything is extremely more expensive today than it was 20 years ago, especially healthcare.
I'm lucky to have the job considering my last job was only a buck over national minimum wage with the overnight shift differential and even though I was given the employee of the month at one point, nobody got a single cent for a raise. I spent 2 1/2 years there.
When I do my 2018 income tax forms next year, that will mark the first time since I was laid off in late 2009 that I have collectively made what I used to make in a single year when I was laid off. It will have taken me 8 years to make what I used to make in a single year.
According to the Unemployment stats, all is as it was though. I'm employed. That's all that matters to the stats.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
When I was 18 I would wait to cash my paycheck until my pocket ran out of money. When I noticed my pocket had run out of cash, I would rifle through about 10 of my recent (twice monthly) paychecks to find one about the size I wanted, and go cash it.
A year or 2 later I had a roomie, he had quit a job the prior year in mid-February to start the job he had now (at the time). He noticed that the income Taxes he paid in the first job totalled more than the total income of the 2nd job for over 10 months.
3 years after my first anecdote I was working at a decent rate, forget the hourly number. Lots of overtime. Holidays were the busiest, they needed us to work as many hours as we could stay awake (and safe). So the first 8 hours was time and a half. Next couple hours were at double time pay. By the time we clocked out with around 16 hours, we had a bunch of triple time hours. The paycheck I got for the payperiod encompassing Christmas & New Years was the largest I had, until about 15 years later I finally topped it.
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Well, I fell asleep last night while updating the figures from Friday's report.
But it looks like Involuntary Part-Time is the lowest since before 9/11, both raw count, and percentage. I have not seen that item pointed out in any summaries.
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Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Well, I fell asleep last night while updating the figures from Friday's report.
But it looks like Involuntary Part-Time is the lowest since before 9/11, both raw count, and percentage. I have not seen that item pointed out in any summaries.
lol... you're going to need big citations on that one. Preferably from multiple sources.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:From The Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is the cite. Everything else is derivative. With info so readily available, it might be considered Common Knowledge. It's not an obscure source.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Well, I fell asleep last night while updating the figures from Friday's report.
But it looks like Involuntary Part-Time is the lowest since before 9/11, both raw count, and percentage. I have not seen that item pointed out in any summaries.
lol... you're going to need big citations on that one. Preferably from multiple sources.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Although shadowstats says Unemployment is the lowest since 2010, I do not see where they delve into the specific categories.
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Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:From The Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is the cite. Everything else is derivative. With info so readily available, it might be considered Common Knowledge. It's not an obscure source.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Well, I fell asleep last night while updating the figures from Friday's report.
But it looks like Involuntary Part-Time is the lowest since before 9/11, both raw count, and percentage. I have not seen that item pointed out in any summaries.
lol... you're going to need big citations on that one. Preferably from multiple sources.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Although shadowstats says Unemployment is the lowest since 2010, I do not see where they delve into the specific categories.
The bureau of labor statistics is bullshit. Trump agreed with me when he wasn't President. I'd trust shadowstats over anything they had to say.
Also, saying that unemployment is the lowest since 2010 isn't saying all that much.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Updating with today's report data:
Jobless Claims.
Apparently the 209,000 reported on 26 April 2018 was the lowest since 1969. And the 210,000 on 1 March was too.
Other weeks:
230,000 1 February
221,000 8 February
229,000 15 February
222,000 22 February
210,000 1 March - 4wk avg 221
230,000 8 March
226,000 15 March
227,000 22 March
215,000 29 March - 4wk avg 225
242,000 5 April
233,000 12 April
233,000 19 April
209,000 26 April - Apr avg 229
211,000 3 May
211,000 10 May
223,000 17 May
234,000 24 May - May avg 220
221,000 31 May (for week ending 26 May) - May avg 220
222,000 7 June (for week ending 2 June)
218,000 14 June
218,000 21 June
227,000 28 June - June avg 221
231,000 5 July
214,000 12 July
207,000 19 July
217,000 26 July - July avg 217
218,000 2 August
213,000 9 August
212,000 16 August
210,000 23 August - 4 week avg 213,000
213,000 30 August - 5 week avg 213,000
203,000 6 September
204,000 13 September - 2 week avg 204,000
207,000 is the lowest number since 1969. And 217,000 is the lowest average this year, and for decades.
203,000 is the lowest number since 6 December 1969.
We now have 10 weeks in a row under 220,000. The prior such trend was 3 weeks.
And we have 6 weeks in a row at or under 213,000.
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Updating with today's report data:
Jobless Claims.
Apparently the 209,000 reported on 26 April 2018 was the lowest since 1969. And the 210,000 on 1 March was too.
Other weeks:
230,000 1 February
221,000 8 February
229,000 15 February
222,000 22 February
210,000 1 March - 4wk avg 221
230,000 8 March
226,000 15 March
227,000 22 March
215,000 29 March - 4wk avg 225
242,000 5 April
233,000 12 April
233,000 19 April
209,000 26 April - Apr avg 229
211,000 3 May
211,000 10 May
223,000 17 May
234,000 24 May - May avg 220
221,000 31 May (for week ending 26 May) - May avg 220
222,000 7 June (for week ending 2 June)
218,000 14 June
218,000 21 June
227,000 28 June - June avg 221
231,000 5 July
214,000 12 July
207,000 19 July
217,000 26 July - July avg 217
218,000 2 August
213,000 9 August
212,000 16 August
210,000 23 August - 4 week avg 213,000
213,000 30 August - 5 week avg 213,000
203,000 6 September
204,000 13 September
201,000 20 September - 3 week avg 203,000
207,000 is the lowest number since 1969. And 217,000 is the lowest average this year, and for decades.
203,000 is the lowest number since 6 December 1969.
We now have 11 weeks in a row under 220,000. The prior such trend was 3 weeks.
And we have 7 weeks in a row at or under 213,000.
And 3 weeks in a row at or under 204,000.
MSM reports that this week's 201K is both the lowest in 48 years and also the lowest since November 1960. No danger of cyphering accurately via Libtard Maths.
In totally unrelated news, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 both closed with Record All-Time High values.
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