20. Health Care Burden: Average Annual Contributions to Premiums and Total Premiums for Family Coverage, 1999-2010 * Estimate is statistically different from estimate for the previous year shown (p<.05). Source: Kaiser/HRET Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits, 1999-2010. $5,791 $6,438* $7,061* $8,003* $9,068* $9,950* $10,880* $11,480* $12,106* $12,680* $13,375* $13,770*
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Editor's Notes
From peak to trough more than 8m jobs were lost. As many Americans are working now as in November 1999.
“ Seventy is the new 17,” says the director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at New York’s New School for Social Research. “Seniors are now overrepresented in low-income jobs normally associated with teens.”
nonfarm payroll employment almost 7 percent (7.7 million jobs) lower in July 2010 than it was when recession began in December 07
The share of the labor force that have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks rose higher than it had been at any point in the past six decades
Investors withdrew a staggering $33.12 billion from domestic stock market mutual funds in the first seven months of this year