April 26, 2001 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Families experiencing unemployment in 2000
Of the nation's 71.7 million families, 5.7
percent reported having an unemployed member in an average week in 2000, a
decline of 0.3 percentage point from the previous year.
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The proportion of black families with an unemployed member in 2000
(10.2 percent) was higher than the proportion for either Hispanic (9.0
percent) or white families (5.0 percent). Hispanic families had the
largest drop in unemployment between 1999 and 2000, from 9.7 percent to
9.0 percent.
These data on unemployment are
from the Current Population Survey. Find out
more in "Employment
characteristics of families in 2000," news release USDL 01-103.
Of interest
Spotlight on Statistics: National Hispanic Heritage Month
In this Spotlight, we take a look at the Hispanic labor force—including labor force participation, employment and unemployment, educational attainment, geographic location, country of birth, earnings, consumer expenditures, time use, workplace injuries, and employment projections.
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