Equity in the U.S.

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Equity Index
What would be needed to bring Equity around our economic policies in the U.S.

20,000
jobs lost in January 2010

127,000
new jobs needed monthly to maintain unemployment rate

9.7
percentage of workforce that was jobless in January 2010

4.9
percentage of workforce that was unemployed in December 2007

10.7 million
new jobs needed to return the jobless rate to 4.9 percent

17
number of U.S. states with double digit unemployment

16.2
percentage of unemployed African Americans

12.9
percentage of unemployed Latinos

6.4
number of jobseekers per job opening

5.1 million
number of additional people each week receiving unemployment benefits as result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

$370
average monthly cost of COBRA with ARRA subsidy

$1,057
average monthly cost of COBRA without ARRA subsidy