The official US Unemployment Percentage Rate.
The average number of weeks a job seeker is unemployed.
The percentage of people in the Civilian Labor Force who are working.
This statistic helps to keep track of workers who are 'discouraged' and no longer included in the official unemployment rate.
This statistic shows that there never really was any recovery after 2001, that the appearance of growth was ephemeral, all a bubble spun by the Fed and the Banks and the Bush Administration.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
"Some people see God as they see a cow, and love Him as they love a cow — for the milk and cheese, and the profit it brings. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of worldly possessions or inward comfort. They do not truly love God when they love Him for their own advantage. The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye — one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
Meister Eckhart, Predigten und Traktate