Charting U.S. unemployment rates by demographics
The number of unemployed persons (6.8 million) and the unemployment rate (4.5 percent) were unchanged in May, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
Over the month, the jobless rates for the major worker groups — adult men (4.0 percent), adult women (3.8 percent), teenagers (15.3 percent), whites (3.9 percent), blacks (8.2 percent) and Hispanics (5.4 percent) — showed little or no change.
The data in this report is from the Current Population Survey and is seasonally adjusted. For more information, see "The Employment Situation: May 2007," news release USDL 07-0793.