The current employment situation in the United States has changed dramatically since 2008 when 145,362 million people were gainfully employed. After March 13th, 2008 the economic decline officially began as firms shed jobs at an accelerated rate. In modern retrospect, some contemporary politicians would like to take the blame at the foot of President Obama, but most Americans are aware that one man being elected into The Oval Office did not create the massive slide in job losses. In 2009, the American work-force was at 139,877 million and by 2010 those gainfully employed in the United States dropped to 139,064 million. By the end of 2010 the massive lay-offs and “right-sizing” by corporations had been completed.
Going into 2011 there were about 125,100 million Caucasians employed in the United States with the largest number being Caucasian males at about 67.7 million. Caucasian females were the second largest group of gainfully employed individuals at 57.4 million.
The ethnic breakdown was in stark contrast to those of Caucasians with 17.9 million African-Americans gainfully employed. The interesting inverse in gender of employment among African-Americans was different with 8.4 million African-American males and 9.4 African-American females. There were 1 million more African-American females gainfully employed at the beginning of 2011 than African-American males. The main significance of this statistic is that the last time there were more African-American males gainfully employed than African-American females was in 1980. No other racial or ethnic group in the United States had an inverse since that year. In 2010 an estimated 22.7 million Latino males and 13.5 Latino females were gainfully employed. Continue Reading
