In 2021, the unemployment rate among the United States workforce was approximately 5.35 percent - this was roughly 3.8 percent lower than the unemployment rate in 2020, during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, but was still around one percent higher than pre-pandemic levels.
United States: Unemployment rate from 1999 to 2023
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World Bank. (June 28, 2024). United States: Unemployment rate from 1999 to 2023 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/263710/unemployment-rate-in-the-united-states/
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