Ala FIGURE 2.1 in text Labor Force Status of the U.S. Adult Civilian Population, August 2005

LFP = 66.18%

Emp = 62.91%

Unemp = 4.93%

226,421,000

76,581,000

149,841,000

142,449,000

7,391,000

From BLS Employment Situation Summary at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm

Ala FIGURE 2.2 Unemployment Rates for the Civilian Labor Force, 1900–200(5)

4.9% in 08/05

Year Total Men Women

1950 59.9% 86.8% 33.9%

1960 60.2% 84.0% 37.8%

1970 61.3% 80.6% 43.4%

1980 64.2% 77.9% 51.6%

1990 66.5% 76.4% 57.5%

2000 67.2% 74.7% 60.2%

2005 (Aug) 66.2% 73.5% 59.3%

Ala Table 2.1 Labor Force Participation Rates by Gender, 1950–200(5)

Ala Figure 2.3 Employment Distribution by Major Industrial Sector, 1900-1997

1980 1990 2004

Average Hourly Earnings 6.84 10.19 15.68

CPI (1982-1984 base) 82.4 130.7 188.9

Average Hourly Earnings (1982 dollars) 8.30 7.80 8.30

Average Hourly Earnings (2004 dollars) 15.68 14.73 15.68

Ala TABLE 2.2 Nominal and Real Hourly Earnings, U.S. Nonsupervisory Workers in the Private Sector, 1980–2004

TABLE 9.1 Changes in College Enrollments and Education Earnings Differential, by Gender, 1970–2001

TABLE 10.3 Officially Recorded Immigration: 1901 to 2003

TABLE 12.2 Female Earnings as a Percentage of Male Earnings, by Age and Education, Full-Time Workers, 2003

TABLE 12.4 Employment Ratios, LFP Rates, and Unemployment Rates, by Race and Gender,a 1970–2003

FIGURE 12.1 Mean Earnings as a % of White Male Earnings, Various Demographic Groups, FT Workers over 24 Years Old, 2003

Earnings of FT Full Year Workers, by Race and Gender, 1970-1999

Black Men / White Men

Black Women / White Men

Black Women / White Women

1970 0.65 0.47 0.84

1980 0.70 0.53 0.92

1990 0.70 0.58 0.90

1999 0.71 0.55 0.86

Earnings Ratios

TABLE 15.3 Unemployment Rates in 2000 by Demographic Group