Find the number of unemployed people.
Industry: Health care Median Salary: $83,200 Unemployment Rate: 0.5 percent If an injury or disability makes it difficult for you to get around, fulfill job duties, keep clean or interact with.
'Unemployed' people are defined by the federal government as people who are able to work and who have actively looked for work in the last four weeks.
- Actively looking for work fits a broad category that includes having contacted an employer directly with a resume or through an interview, going to a public or private employment agency, asking friends or relatives for work opportunities, going to a school employment center, placing advertisements looking for work, or filling out job applications.[1]
- People who are unemployed, but who have stopped looking for work because they don't believe they can find one in their line of work, they were previously unable to find work, or because they feel they are too old, or too inexperienced to work, are considered to be 'marginally attached to the labor force' and are therefore not considered to be part of the labor force.
- The federal government finds this number through surveying 60,000 US households every month.[2]