Today’s Jobs Report in Pictures

Today’s disappointing jobs report, while perhaps only a temporary blip in an ongoing labor market recovery, is nevertheless a sober reminder of how devastating the Great Recession and subsequent prolonged jobs slump has been for American workers.  In particular, the share of the population with a job, which plunged to low levels not seen since the early 1980s, has since risen only modestly even though we now are more than five years into the recovery.  In addition, the share of the labor force that is working fewer hours than it would like remains elevated, and unusually high long-term unemployment persists.

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