Unemployment rate in April 2006
May 08, 2006
In April, the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.7 percent.
The jobless rates for the major worker groups—adult men (4.2 percent), adult women (4.3 percent), teenagers (14.6 percent), whites (4.1 percent), blacks (9.4 percent), and Hispanics (5.4 percent)—showed little or no change over the month.
The data in this report are from the Current Population Survey and are seasonally adjusted. For more information, see "The Employment Situation: April 2006" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 06-777.
SUGGESTED CITATION
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Editor's Desk, Unemployment rate in April 2006 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2006/may/wk2/art01.htm (visited June 19, 2013).
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