Characteristics of Displaced Workers 2007–2009: A Visual Essay

Displaced workers often have difficulty finding new employment opportunities. This report, from the Monthly Labor Review at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, provides information on displaced workers across industries between 2007 and 2009. Twenty-three percent (1.6 million) of all long-tenured displaced workers, individuals who lost or left jobs they had held for 3 or more years, were displaced from manufacturing jobs. Around one million long-tenured displaced workers had held jobs in wholesale and retail trade, and more than 900,000 displaced workers had lost or left jobs in the construction industry.