I Work With People

I myself have been wondering if people have been losing jobs more than before or is it some scare tactic to gain readers/listeners/watcher that the news is pulling. Are we in time where there is a larger percentage of people on welfare, or is there just more people in the united states  who collect unemployment checks.

It’s hard to tell. I get plenty of readers here, but no one actually uses the job search. I really am under the impress that there are just more people in the country who can apply for unemployment.I am also under the impression that there really just aren’t that many people willing to look for a job. Well then again, not everybody is jobless with internet. so I have to factor in the chance that many people have no access. but there are millions out there that know it’s about to happen (if things are as bad as the news says it is). These people still have internet access. My actual search hits are extremely low.

I know it works fine I have used the job search and tested it out. I have to to make sure people get what they need. I don’t like the idea of a false offering. On that note if you tried and it was not up to what you needed, please explain what you needed and what you ended up getting. I will fix the issue. If you tried it and got a job, please let me know. It would be a great feeling to know  I did something free  that was good.

Looking at the Department of Labor I just don’t see it.

For release 10:00 a.m. (EDT) Thursday, May 27, 2010                    USDL-10-0721

Technical information:  (202) 691-6378  *  cpsinfo@bls.gov  *  www.bls.gov/cps
Media contact:          (202) 691-5902  *  PressOffice@bls.gov

                 EMPLOYMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILIES -- 2009

The share of families with an unemployed member rose from 7.8 percent in 2008
to 12.0 percent in 2009, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The
proportion of families with an unemployed member in 2009 was at its highest le-
vel since the data series began in 1994. Of the nation's 78.4 million families,
80.4 percent had at least one employed member in 2009, down by 1.8 percentage
points from 2008. 

These data on employment, unemployment, and family relationships are collected
as part of the Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly sample survey of ap-
proximately 60,000 households. Families include married-couple families, as well
as families maintained by a man or woman with no spouse present. For further
information about the CPS, see the Technical Note.

Families and Unemployment

There were 9.4 million families with at least one unemployed member in 2009, up
from 6.1 million in 2008. The proportion of families with an unemployed member
was 6.3 percent in 2007; it rose to 7.8 percent in 2008 and to 12.0 percent in
2009. (See table 1.)

Black and Hispanic families were more likely to have an unemployed member (17.4
and 16.9 percent, respectively) than were white (11.1 percent) and Asian (11.4
percent) families in 2009. Most families with an unemployed member also have at
least one family member who is employed. Among families with an unemployed mem-
ber in 2009, 68.6 percent also had an employed member, compared with 70.8 per-
cent in 2008. (See table 1.)

Among married-couple families with an unemployed member in 2009, 79.9 percent
had an employed member, down from 82.5 percent in 2008. For families maintained
by women (no spouse present) with an unemployed member, the proportion that also
contained an employed member was lower in 2009 (46.1 percent) than in 2008 (49.1
percent). For families maintained by men (no spouse present), the proportion
fell to 52.6 percent in 2009 from 57.3 percent in 2008. (See table 3.)

Families and Employment

The share of families with an employed member was lower in 2009 (80.4 percent)
than in 2008 (82.2 percent). The likelihood of having an employed family member
declined over the year for families of all major race and ethnicity groups.
(See table 1.)

In 2009, families maintained by women with no spouse present were less likely
to have an employed member (72.8 percent) than were married-couple families
(82.4 percent) or families maintained by men with no spouse present (79.8 per-
cent). The share of families with an employed member declined over the year
for all family types. (See table 2.)

Both the husband and wife were employed in 48.5 percent of married-couple fami-
lies in 2009, compared with 51.4 percent in 2008. Married-couple families in
which only the wife worked accounted for 8.4 percent of all married-couple fami-
lies in 2009, compared with 6.9 percent in 2008. The husband was the only em-
ployed member in 19.6 percent of married-couple families in 2009, essentially
unchanged from a year earlier. (See table 2.)

Families with Children

Forty-four percent of all families included children (sons, daughters, step-
children, and adopted children) under age 18. Among the 34.8 million families
with children, 87.8 percent had an employed parent in 2009, down from 90.0 per-
cent in 2008. The mother was employed in 67.8 percent of families maintained
by women with no spouse present in 2009, and the father was employed in 76.6
percent of those maintained by men with no spouse present. Among married-couple
families with children, 95.7 percent had an employed parent in 2009, down from
97.0 percent in 2008. Both the mother and father were employed in 58.9 percent
of married-couple families with children in 2009, also lower than a year earlier.
(See table 4.)

Mothers

The labor force participation rate--the percent of the population working or look-
ing for work--for all mothers with children under 18 was 71.4 percent in 2009, un-
changed from 2008. In 2009, the participation rate for married mothers with spouse
present (69.6 percent) was lower than the rate for mothers in other marital statuses
(75.8 percent). Married mothers were equally as likely to be employed as mothers in
other marital statuses, but their unemployment rate was substantially lower--5.8 per-
cent in 2009, compared with 13.6 percent for mothers in other marital statuses. Unem-
ployment rates increased in 2009 for mothers of all marital statuses. (See table 5.)

Mothers with younger children are less likely to be in the labor force than mothers
with older children. In 2009, the labor force participation rate of mothers with
children under 6 years old (64.2 percent) was lower than the rate of those whose
youngest child was 6 to 17 years old (77.3 percent). The participation rate of
mothers with infants under a year old was 56.6 percent. The participation rate of
married mothers of infants (56.1 percent) was slightly lower than for those with
other marital statuses (57.8 percent). However, the unemployment rate for married
mothers of infants, at 7.0 percent, was significantly lower than the rate for mothers
with other marital statuses (22.3 percent). (See tables 5 and 6.)

Of course those stats are last year. and a lot of stuff can change in the employment world in 6 months time.