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Tuesday, April 7, 2026

A Third of Unemployed Americans Find Jobs a Month Later: Chart - Bloomberg Law

The tight U.S. labor market has not only allowed many workers to switch jobs in search of better pay or flexibility, but it’s also increasingly helping unemployed Americans land a job. The rarely cited job-finding rate, a metric the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta calculates based on labor force flows, shows an estimated 32.1% of workers who were unemployed in January were employed in February. The March employment report, out Friday, is expected to show employers added about half a million jobs in the month.

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