Unemployment for Seniors? Still Rising...

• 7.1% - Unemployment rate in May for workers 55 and older, up from 7% in April.
  
  
• 44.2 – Number of weeks older jobseekers were unemployed in May, up from 42.9 in April.
  
  
• 59.4% - Percentage of older jobseekers who were unemployed for 27 weeks or more in May, up from 23% at the start of the recession.
  
  
• 7.6% - unemployment rate for older men in May, compared with 5.9% for older women.
  
  
• 28 million – Number of people 55 or older who had a job in May.
  
  

Source: AARP