Updated Facts & Stats: The Latest on Working Family Issues

by James Parks, Sep 6, 2008

Did you know that about 430,000 people are unemployed in Ohio? That’s roughly 100,000 more than were jobless in 2001. Or that 15.3 percent of us don’t have health insurance?

These and other facts are available in Facts & Stats on the AFL-CIO website. The site, which was recently updated, offers a multitude of the more current official data about working family issues—nationally and state by state. For example, if you want to know the number of fatal injuries over the past three years in the country, Facts & Stats has the answer: nearly 17,000. You can find the same kind of information for jobs lost due to trade and many other facts.  

The site’s user-friendly pull-down menu allows you to select facts from 13 different categories—bankruptcy, education, health care, housing, infrastructure, jobs, pensions, safety and health, poverty, trade, unemployment, union membership and wages and income. The site has information for every state and the District of Columbia.

The one-stop shop for facts and stats on working people’s issues makes it easy to find relevant numbers to bolster your arguments at the bargaining table and in the political arena. Or it may just make for interesting reading to compare stats for different states. And you can download the information in spreadsheets for quick and easy use as you need it.

So take some time to check out the new, updated Facts & Stats. You might be surprised at what you find out.

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