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<\/a><\/a>Unemployment in February was down 0.05% from January’s 11.47% and down sharply (0.24%) from December’s 11.66%. These are the most substantial improvements that have been demonstrated since late 2013, when unemployment fell below its spike in October 2013 to over 13%. Current trends seem to indicate that no one is re-entering the labor force, but those who have remained in the labor force are actually finding jobs at a slightly steadier pace at the outset of 2015. If these trends of improvement continue, unemployment may actually be below 10% by the end of 2016.<\/p>\n
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This is part of a continuing series on the under-reporting of unemployment in the United States of America.<\/i><\/p>\n
Past posts<\/b> (months indicate the month being analyzed – the post is in the month following): *My initial analyses led to a slight over-reporting of the impact of the reporting gap, so the assessments in these posts are inflated, as explained and corrected in the December 2013 analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unemployment declined in February 2015 for the second straight month, to 11.42%. This is the lowest unemployment has been in the US since June 2009, when unemployment was 11.26%. The Reporting Gap, which indicates how under-reported the official BLS figure is when failing to account for departures from the labor force, crept up to 5.92%, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,41],"tags":[5,76],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-its-the-stupid-economy","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-its-the-stupid-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDecember 2014 – labor force participation assessment<\/a>
\nDecember 2014<\/a>
\nNovember 2014<\/a>
\nOctober 2014 – age assessment<\/a>
\nOctober 2014<\/a>
\nSeptember 2014<\/a>
\nAugust 2014<\/a>
\nApril 2014<\/a>
\nDecember 2013 – seasonal assessment<\/a>
\nDecember 2013<\/a>
\nMarch 2013*<\/a>
\nAugust 2012*<\/a>
\nJuly 2012* – age assessment<\/a>
\nJuly 2012*<\/a><\/p>\n