To: Shellybenoit
Here are the numbers from BLS:
Unemployment rate, May 2008-May 2009
May-2008 5.5%
Jun 5.6%
Jul 5.8%
Aug 6.2%
Sep 6.2%
Oct 6.6%
Nov 6.8%
Dec 7.2%
Jan-2009 7.6%
Feb 8.1%
Mar 8.5%
Apr 8.9%
May 9.4%
These are the “admitted numbers” probably reality is somewhat higher for various reasons.
Some estimate total real unemployment is in the neighborhood of 15%
3 posted on
06/09/2009 9:31:22 AM PDT by
Texas Fossil
(Once a Republic, Now a State, Still Texas)
To: Texas Fossil
From BLS the number of newly unemployed jumped 40% from April to May 2009. If McCain had won that would have been the headline.
12 posted on
06/09/2009 9:43:28 AM PDT by
Reeses
(Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
To: Texas Fossil
Dec. 2006, the last time we had a GOP President and Congress - 4.5%.
19 posted on
06/09/2009 1:45:17 PM PDT by
TwelveOfTwenty
(Hey Nancy, how many jobs have been lost since you and the Democrats took Congress?)
To: Texas Fossil
Here's a graph that Team Obama made up to sell the spending plan to the public in January. It was a supposed projection of unemployment rates, with and without the spending plan.
This blogger added on the unemployment rates that actually happened.
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