Jobless Rate for People Like You

Click on the picture to do your own. I was interested to see that less women were jobless than men, overall 7.6% vs. 9.5%. Having a high school dimploma makes you twice as likely to be jobless as a college degree, and not having a high school dimploma makes you almost twice as likely to be jobless as having one. The highest jobless rate is for black men ages 15 to 24 without a high school degree, the rate is near 49%. The lowest rate is for white women ages 25 to 44 with a college degree, at 3.6%. Also note that the trend in joblessness is upward, the recession does not appear to be over.

From New York Times.