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The Official Unemployment rate (U-3) in US for August 2011 was 9.1.Below are the other unemployment rates in US for August 2011 :U-1 Unemployment rate : 5.4U-2 Unemployment rate : 5.3U-3 Unemployment rate : 9.1U-4 Unemployment rate : 9.7U-5 Unemployment rate : 10.6U-6 Unemployment rate : 16.2
The unemployment rate usually rises during a recession.
7.50%
The unemployment rate in the US in August, 2010 was 9.6%. See the Related Link below.
the desciion of the US congress to lower the federal income tax rate
Per the U.S. Department of Labor the unemployment rate in the U.S. in January 2011 was 9%
El Centro, California with an unemployment rate of almost 27%.
According to the Related Link below, the US unemployment rate was 4.2% in 1928. It jumped to 8.7% in 1930, and was 23.6% in 1932.
According to the Vidal Statistics the unemployment rate in 1940 was 14.6% (8.1 million total unemployed)
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7.9% (April 2010)
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