Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: May 2017 Report Edition
1.
The share of all workers with a job ticked down in May and the employment rate for prime-age workers fell to 78.4 percent.
a
2.
The recent spike in inflation may be abating, but nominal wage growth for most workers is still quite weak.
a
3.
The unemployment rate for African Americans is back to pre-recession levels, but it’s still twice as high as the white unemployment rate.
a
4.
The gap between the U6 measure of underemployment and the official unemployment rate shrunk in May.
a
5.
Workers out of a job for longer than 15 weeks rose as a share of unemployment in May, but the overall trend has been downward since the recession ended.
a