Employers had added jobs for 76 months straight — the longest hiring streak on record at the time — and unemployment was just 4.7%, a 10-year low ... Hover over the charts to see how the ...

Let’s look at this chart, which shows historical data on unemployment over the past 11 years ending 2019 ... was at 8 percent and headed higher to 10 percent by the end of 2009.

Unemployment was skyrocketing as businesses laid off workers. It peaked at 10.3% in October 2009 (it would later be revised to 10%), the worst level in 26 years. At the end of Obama's term ...

The figures in the graph include ... as unemployment rose sharply. Interest refers to interest the government pays on the national debt. In 1987, the interest rate on 10-year Treasury bonds ...

Following this morning's payrolls report, here is a look at how unemployment has trended in recent years. The rate hit a trough of 3.4% early last year, the lowest in more than half a century.

Treasury yields dropped on Friday as the latest U.S. jobs report showed an unexpected rise in the unemployment rate. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell more than 6 basis points to 4.28%.

we need two years of 7.5% unemployment or five years of 6% unemployment or one year of 10% unemployment,” Summers said in a speech in London on Monday, Bloomberg reported. “There are numbers ...

Unemployment peaked at 10.3% in October 2009 (it would later be revised to 10%), the worst in 26 years. Today unemployment is now back at 5%-- a level experts consider "normal" for a healthy economy.