BLS: Employment-Population Ratio at 60% in July 2022
August 11, 2022
August 11, 2022
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from the Economics Daily:
The employment-population ratio-the proportion of the population that is employed-was 60.0 percent in July 2022 for people age 16 and older. The ratio was little changed over the month but was 1.6 percentage points higher than in July 2021 (58.4 percent) and 8.7 percentage points higher than in April 2020 (51.3 percent), when the ratio reached the . . .
The employment-population ratio-the proportion of the population that is employed-was 60.0 percent in July 2022 for people age 16 and older. The ratio was little changed over the month but was 1.6 percentage points higher than in July 2021 (58.4 percent) and 8.7 percentage points higher than in April 2020 (51.3 percent), when the ratio reached the . . .