The screenshot below reflects the overall unemployment rate from November 2001 through November 2021 (downloaded from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics on 3 December 2021.) The overall rate for November 2021 was 4.2%, a bit up from the pre-pandemic rate of 3.5% in February 2020 but down dramatically from the peak rate of 14.8% in April 2020. Click here to activate the chart and then click on each demographic category at the top to highlight the variation from the overall rate.