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Current Unemployment Data affects Assisted Living

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Several experts have theories that Assisted Living and Residential Care for the Facilities for the Elderly (RCFE’s) occupancy has been linked to the unemployment rate.

Previous Stats ….According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are nearly 31 million people currently unemployed — that’s including those involuntarily working part time and those who want a job, but have given up on trying to find one. In the face of the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression, millions of Americans are hurting. “The Decline: The Geography of a Recession,” as created by labor writer LaToya Egwuekwe, serves as a vivid representation of just how much. Watch the deteriorating transformation of the U.S. economy from January 2007 — approximately one year before the start of the recession — to the most recent unemployment data available today.

SORUCE: latoyaegwuekwe.com