Comments on: Unemployment Rate: A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis

By: teshon stephen

teshon stephen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:38:33 +0000

its good information, i will also like to hear more on a global level thanks

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:24:48 +0000

I agree. For October 2009, the U6 is 17.5%

By: Beau Byron

Beau Byron — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:35:12 +0000

I would love to see an update to this Wallstats visual guide or if the author could embed data link for real time update.

Beau Byron

By: Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:07:29 +0000

Yes, pls update.

It’s amazing the stock market DOESN’T care about the unemployed. It’s because it’s a lagging indicator.

By: Jim R

Jim R — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:00:14 +0000

It would be great if this could be brought up to date. U-6 now stands at 17%

By: ofigennoe.ru

ofigennoe.ru — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:58:27 +0000

i loved the article added to my favourites

By: Lenniustr

Lenniustr — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:35:21 +0000

Had a lot of fun

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By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:52:12 +0000

The greater Depression awaits us, and this time no amount of government spending will save us by forcing market upswings. The next dip will be a deep one, and will include the devaluation of the dollar to ass-wipe! China is toying with us, playing games with our economy, and winning a soldier-less, gun-less, fighter plane-less war against us! They have “Acquired” all our key industries, next we will drive Chinese built cars on American streets, sand eat food they send us from Asia – We area a marketplace to the Asian world, and until we have no more ink to print dollars so it will be!

By: Extenze

Extenze — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:06:05 +0000

Nice post! GA is also my biggest earning. However, it’s not a much.

By: chel

chel — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:25:09 +0000

This is more for the conversation started at the top: For everyone concerned about students being counted as unemployed, here is the official definition of unemployment: % of labor force that is not working. and the unemployment rate is calculated by dividing the number of unemployed by the number of people in the work force.
the work force is concidered:
all u.s. residents
minus anyone under 16
minus institutionalized adults
minus adults not looking for work.
so if there is a college student who is looking for a job and is not able to find one they are technically concidered unemployed.
there are also four types of unemployment that people can fall under, so the college student would not be classified under the same catagory as the guy next door who worked for a plant that downsized and he got layed off.
and after a certain period of time people start to drop off the unemployment list because you can only collect benefits for so long and after that time period you are no longer counted as unemployed.