claim: the u.s. unemployment rate has remained above 8 percent for 43 consecutive months, the longest stretch since the great depression.
author: phil gingrey
evidence_1: sep 6, 2018 ... not every part of the united states has benefited equally from the job ...  consecutive month of job growth, the longest period of uninterrupted ... in some  counties, unemployment remains higher than the nationwide recent peak of 10.6  percent in the wake of the recession. ..... may unemployment: 8.0 percent
evidence_2: politifact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected ...  the u.s. unemployment rate has remained above 8 percent for 43 consecutive  months, the longest stretch since the great depression. ... if you send us a  comment, we'll assume you don't mind us publishing it unless you tell us  otherwise.
evidence_3: jan 10, 2019 ... but unemployment remained above 10% until 1941, when the us ... the timeline  of the great depression was from august 1929 to june 1938, almost ... that  same month, the federal reserve raised the discount rate from 5 percent to 6 ... it  was the fourth-largest bank in the nation, the largest bank failure in ...
evidence_4: jul 9, 2012 ... trend continues to grow as american workers suffer ... indeed, a large  percentage of americans are concerned about jobs shifting from the united ... so  how pervasive is overseas outsourcing in our economy? ... for a stunning 43  consecutive months—the longest such stretch since the great depression.
evidence_5: since the great depression the economy is currently in a lengthy expansion with  ... the trend reflects a successive weakening of expansionary gdp growth over  time. ... as this brief will show, job growth is in an unprecedented stretch of  monthly gains, ... unemployment, employment, wages, and poverty for the u.s.  and for ...