People 15 years old and over beginning with March 1980, and people 14 years old and over as of March of the following year for previous years.
**Unemployment Rate** Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE Units: Percent, Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Monthly The unemployment rate represents the number of unemployed as a percentage of the labor force. Labor force data are restricted to people 16 years of age and older, who currently reside in 1 of the 50 states or the District of Columbia, who do not reside in institutions (e.g., penal and mental facilities, homes for the aged), and who are not on active duty in the Armed Forces.
Is there a reason why this chart doesn’t remove COVID numbers? The spike is so high that it makes hard to see any movements around it
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Democrats always inheriting an unemployment mess from previous admins.
Why does it seem to end way before “now” while the chart continues?
![[OC] US real median income and unemployment rate](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/0y6kfkimg8jd1.png)
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**Real Median Personal Income in the United States**
Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N & https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-276.html
Units: 2022 CPI-U-RS Adjusted Dollars, Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency: Annual
People 15 years old and over beginning with March 1980, and people 14 years old and over as of March of the following year for previous years.
**Unemployment Rate**
Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
Units: Percent, Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency: Monthly
The unemployment rate represents the number of unemployed as a percentage of the labor force. Labor force data are restricted to people 16 years of age and older, who currently reside in 1 of the 50 states or the District of Columbia, who do not reside in institutions (e.g., penal and mental facilities, homes for the aged), and who are not on active duty in the Armed Forces.
Is there a reason why this chart doesn’t remove COVID numbers? The spike is so high that it makes hard to see any movements around it
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Democrats always inheriting an unemployment mess from previous admins.
Why does it seem to end way before “now” while the chart continues?