Full Employment: Unemployment Rate

unemployment rate: WASHINGTON The gap in employment rates between Americas highest- and lowest-income families has stretched to its widest levels since officials began tracking the data a decade ago, according to an analysis of government data conducted for The Associated Press, according to The Chronicle Herald. U.S. households with income of more than $150,000 a year have an unemployment rate of 3.2 per cent, a level traditionally defined as full employment. At the same time, middle-income workers are increasingly pushed into lower-wage jobs. Many of them in turn are displacing lower-skilled, low-income workers, who become unemployed or are forced to work fewer hours, the analysis shows and Rates of unemployment for the lowest-income families those earning less than $20,000 have topped 21 per cent, nearly matching the rate for all workers during the 1930s Great Depression. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.