Unemployment rate as of September 2011: 9.1%
Alternate U-6 unemployment rate as of September 2011: 16.5%
Molly's alternate unemployment rate as of September 2011: 18.4%
All numbers as of September 2011 unless otherwise indicated:
Number of people unemployed (officially) : 13,992,000
Number of people who "want a job" but haven't looked recently: 6,241,000
Number of officially discouraged workers (a subset of those who "want a job"): 1,037,000
Number of people working part-time who want full-time work: 9,270,000
Total number of people who want work or want full-time work: 29,503,000
Number of people fired or discharged in August 2011 (last available month): 1,659,000
Number of job openings reported as of August 2011 (last available month): 3,056,000
Number of "officially" unemployed people for every job opening: 4.6
Number of people who want work or want a full-time job for every job opening: 9.7
Number of people estimated to be in the U.S. population, all ages and situations: 312,501,124 (Census #)
Number of people in the "civilian non-institutional population" age 16 and over: 240,071,000
Number of people active military: 1,468,364 (DoD pdf)
Number of people who are either younger than 16 or institutionalized: 70,962,000
Number of people employed: 140,025,000
Number of people employed working full-time: 112,447,000
Percent of people working full-time of all employed people: 80.3%
Percent of people working full-time of all employed people: 80.3%
Number of people employed working part-time by choice: 18,308,000
Number of people employed working part-time but who want/need full-time work (same as listed above): 9,270,000
Total number of people working part-time: 27,578,000
Percent of people working part-time of all employed: 19.7%
Percent of people working part-time involuntarily of all employed: 6.6%
Percent of people working part-time of all employed: 19.7%
Percent of people working part-time involuntarily of all employed: 6.6%
Number of people officially unemployed (same as listed above): 13,992,000
Number of people collecting unemployment benefits (all programs) in September: 6,862,000
Percent of officially unemployed people who get unemployment benefits: 49.0%
Number of people collecting unemployment benefits (all programs) in September: 6,862,000
Percent of officially unemployed people who get unemployment benefits: 49.0%
Number of people who want a job but haven't looked recently (same as above): 6,241,000
Number of people who are NOT working who say that they do NOT want a job (perhaps retired, full-time students, caretaking a child, etc., etc.): 79,813,000
Number of people working (140,025,000) as a percent of the total population minus the military (Total pop minus military is 311,032,760 people): 45.02%
Number of people working full-time as a percent of the total population minus the military: 36.15%
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