The unemployment rate has fallen to a 50-year low

U.S. unemployment rate, 1954–2019

Line graph showing the U.S. unemployment rate from 1954 to 2019, with the rate dropping to a 50-year low of 3.6 percent in October 2019.

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Note: Data are seasonally adjusted. The unemployment rate is the share of workers ages 16 and older who are out of a job and looking for work.

Chart: Center for American Progress Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Current Population Surveys, 1954–2019" (Washington: U.S. Department of Labor, 1954–2019), available at https://www.bls.gov/cps/.