The unemployment rate nationwide decreased to 7.8 percent in September as employment rose by 114,000. The Bureau of Labor Statistic shows among what it calls the “major worker groups,” the unemployment rates for adult men is 7.3 percent; adult women, 7.0 percent; whites, 7.0 percent; teenagers, 23.7 percent; blacks,13.4 percent; Hispanics, 9.9 percent; and Asians, 4.8 percent.
If you add all seven groups together, it works out to a rounded total of 77.9 percent. Then by dividing 77.9 percent by seven the rate increases to jus’ over 11-percent.
Meanwhile 12.1 million people in the U.S. remain unemployed.
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