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Unemployment rate in June 2007
July 09, 2007
The number of unemployed persons (6.9 million) was essentially unchanged in June, and the unemployment rate held at 4.5 percent.
The jobless rate has ranged from 4.4 to 4.6 percent since September 2006.
Over the month, the unemployment rates for adult men (4.1 percent), adult women (3.9 percent), teenagers (15.8 percent), whites (4.0 percent), blacks (8.5 percent), and Hispanics (5.7 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: June 2007" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 07-1015.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Unemployment rate in June 2007 on the Internet at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2007/jul/wk2/art01.htm (visited October 24, 2020).
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