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No one KNOWS for certain. The Bureau of Labor Stats estimates from a carefully designed multi-part national survey that just short of 10% of the 153 million folks in the IUS workforce are "unemployed". That means one thing - seeking work but not paid to work this week.
There are another 150 million US residents not working, but they are outside the workforce: retirees, children, inmates, active military, disabled, housewives, and former workers not seeking employment.
The percent unemployed refers to the percent of workers unemployed, and does not include children and others not considered a part f the work force.
There are about 15.1 million people in the US right now that are unemployed.
California has the most people unemployed of all 50 states in the USA. There are approximately 4,023,428 people unemployed, which is a 10.8% unemployment rate. This was researched in July 2012 by using official government websites and the US census website.
14 million
aprox. 2,000 at least
According to a survey, 15.1 million people were unemployed in the US in November 2010.
13 million
The population of the UK is the amount of unemployed parents
In 2007 there were 7,078,000 unemployed people in the US. See Related Link below for details.
The Great Depression in the 30's (US)
320,981,237
If we add up all the unemployed, those working part-time but are looking for full-time work, and those who have given up looking for work we would find that over 24 million Americans are out of work or under employed.
The US citizen can sponsor his wife for a green card, not for US citizenship. Since he is currently unemployed, he will need to get a joint sponsor to complete an affidavit of support for his wife.
307,006,550 - as of July 2009