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Unemployment rates by demographics, February 2008

March 11, 2008

The number of unemployed persons (7.4 million) and the unemployment rate (4.8 percent) were essentially unchanged in February.

Unemployment rates by demographic group, February 2008
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Over the month, the unemployment rates for adult men (4.3 percent), adult women (4.2 percent), teenagers (16.6 percent), whites (4.3 percent), and Hispanics (6.2 percent) showed little or no change. The jobless rate for blacks fell to 8.3 percent, in line with the average rate for 2007.

These data are from the Current Population Survey program and are seasonally adjusted. To learn more, see "The Employment Situation: February 2008" (PDF) (HTML), news release USDL 08-0294.

SUGGESTED CITATION

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Unemployment rates by demographics, February 2008 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2008/mar/wk2/art02.htm (visited October 31, 2024).

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