The unemployment charts (links on top of this page) have been updated with the most recent data.
The first chart shows that, for folks 20 and over, there is still a big gap between the unemployment rate of men and women. Probably a logical explanation for this if you take the time to dig through the data… types of work men typically do being hit harder? Men being targets because of higher salaries compared to women?
Second is a straightforward unemployment rate chart for 16yrs and older.
Third chart had to change this time around because of available data on the Bureau of Labor Statistics site. The data I was using appears to be gone, but I did find data focused on non-farm jobs in the private sector… so I replaced all months with this new data.
This third chart uses February 2009 as the baseline, when we were promised the stimulus bill would create 3,500,000 new jobs by 2011. This chart extends to December 2011 to give the folks in power the entire year of 2011 to accomplish this task.
Unfortunately, we have lost jobs since the start of the stimulus, so the stimulus now needs to create 6,871,000 jobs by the end of 2011 to reach the total of 3,500,000 promised. That is an average of 343,550 new jobs per month, every month, between now and the end of 2011.
Seems a bit unlikely…
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The promise will not come to pass. The jobs Obama promised are already impossible to be created before 2011 especially with the jobs lost and the rising unemployment unless, there will be a “miracle.”