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
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception