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
"The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse."
R. J. Rummel, Mass Murder and Genocide, 1994