The Obama Backlash...still reads the same (or worse!)

The following picture was displayed here back in October of 2009...not a whole lot has changed. (See original story here: The Obama Backlash ...)

 October 2009: "Unemployment, running nationally at 8.1 percent, is in double digits among blacks."

 Current unemployment (from the The Bureau Of Labor Statistics)

 THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- JUNE 2011

 

Nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged in June (+18,000), and the

unemployment rate was little changed at 9.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor

Statistics reported today. Employment in most major private-sector industries

changed little over the month. Government employment continued to trend down.

 

Household Survey Data

 

The number of unemployed persons (14.1 million) and the unemployment rate (9.2

percent) were essentially unchanged over the month. Since March, the number of

unemployed persons has increased by 545,000, and the unemployment rate has

risen by 0.4 percentage point. The labor force, at 153.4 million, changed

little over the month. (See table A-1.)

 

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (9.1 percent),

adult women (8.0 percent), teenagers (24.5 percent), whites (8.1 percent), blacks

(16.2 percent)

and Hispanics (11.6 percent) showed little or no change in June.

 

The jobless rate for Asians was 6.8 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables

A-1, A-2, and A-3.) ... Continues here: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm