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 ...

And Wonkblog, of course, has its graphs of the year. For 2013 ... we have made with the total unemployment rate down significantly from its peak of 10 percent in late 2009. It also pinpoints ...

There has been a fair amount of rhetoric about the job growth and lower unemployment rate seen since ... would be 25 million jobs created over 10 years if he was elected. In January 2017, I ...

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 ...

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.

This is more about the games that chart-wielding politicians ... just under 8 percent that year if the stimulus passed. But despite the stimulus, unemployment hit 10.1 percent in October 2009 ...

The U.S. economy added 248,000 jobs in September, pushing the unemployment ... be the best year for both total and private sector job growth since 1999," he writes. The following graph compares ...

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 ...

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.