US Unemployment Rate – August 2011: 9.1 %
Non-Farm Payrolls: Unchanged
Labor Force Participation Rate: 64%
Employment Ratio: 58.2%
Broader Unemployment (U-6): 16.2%
Long-Term Unemployed: Long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) accounted for 42.9 percent of the unemployed.