August 28, 2012 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Employment status of displaced workers

Employment status in January 2012 of long-tenured workers displaced in 2009–2011(1), by age and sex
Characteristic	Percent distribution
Characteristic	Employed	Unemployed	Not in the labor force
Total, 20 years and over	56.0	26.7	17.4
Age
20 to 24 years	61.7	22.4	15.9
25 to 54 years	61.5	26.2	12.3
55 to 64 years	47.4	28.1	24.5
65 years and over	23.5	27.5	49.0
Sex
Men	60.9	23.4	15.7
Women	49.7	30.8	19.5
Footnotes: (1) Data refer to persons who had 3 or more years of tenure on a job they had lost or left between January 2009 and December 2011 because of plant or company closings or moves, insufficient work, or the abolishment of their positions or shifts.

Employment status in January 2012 of long-tenured workers displaced in 2009–2011(1), by race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and sex
Characteristic	Percent distribution
Characteristic	Employed	Unemployed	Not in the labor force
White	57.4	26.1	16.5
Men	61.9	23.1	14.9
Women	51.2	30.2	18.7
Black or African American	46.1	31.2	22.7
Men	52.7	24.8	22.4
Women	41.2	35.9	22.9
Asian	60.3	26.7	13.1
Men	61.5	27.6	10.9
Women	58.9	25.6	15.5
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity	54.9	27.7	17.4
Men	60.3	25.7	14.0
Women	44.3	31.6	24.1
Footnotes: (1) Data refer to persons who had 3 or more years of tenure on a job they had lost or left between January 2009 and December 2011 because of plant or company closings or moves, insufficient work, or the abolishment of their positions or shifts.

These data are featured in the TED article, Employment status of displaced workers.

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