What is the US unemployment rate right now?

 What is the US unemployment rate right now?

5.9%

The unemployment rate is 5.9%, which is 0.1 percentage point higher than in May.

The current U.S. joblessness rate is 5.9% in June 2021, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said in its month to month report, delivered July 2, 2021. This joblessness rate is 0.1 rate focuses higher than May.

Joblessness is perhaps the most basic monetary issues confronting the nation as it offsets re-opening with wellbeing over a year into the pandemic. In April 2020, after governments shut down the economy, the joblessness rate came to 14.8%, the most elevated since the Great Depression.3 While June 2021's joblessness rate is fundamentally lower, it's still a long way from pre-pandemic levels.