StateMaster - Delawarean Labor statistics

Employment Ratio	72	[18th of 51]
Mean Travel Time to Work	23.2	[24th of 51]
Percent of Workers Who Traveled to Work by Carpool	9.2 %	[36th of 51]
Percent of Workers Who Traveled to Work by Public Transportation	2.1 %	[19th of 51]
Percent of Workers Who Worked Outside County of Residence	19.9 %	[36th of 51]
Plastics & rubber products manufacturing > Number of employees	2,634	[38th of 44]
Plastics & rubber products manufacturing > Production workers (average per year)	1,864	[37th of 44]
Plastics & rubber products manufacturing > Production workers hours	3,895,000	[38th of 44]
Total Manufacturing > Number of employees	36,378	[43rd of 51]
Total Manufacturing > Production workers (average per year)	25,669	[40th of 51]
Total Manufacturing > Production workers hours	55,416,000	[39th of 51]
Transportation equipment manufacturing > Number of employees	408	[45th of 46]
Transportation equipment manufacturing > Production workers (average per year)	3,505	[33rd of 46]
Transportation equipment manufacturing > Production workers hours	8,035,000	[34th of 46]
Unemployment > Rate	3.4%	[38th of 50]
Unemployment Rate > 2004	4.1	[43rd of 51]
Unemployment Rate > January, 2006	3.9	[36th of 51]
Union affiliation > Percent Represented by Unions	12.9	[24th of 50]
Union affiliation > Percent Union Members	11.8	[22nd of 50]
US minimum wages > State > Level	$7.15	[15th of 50]

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SOURCES: American Community Survey 2004 ; Annual Survey of Manufactures, 2004 ; Wikipedia: List of U.S. states by unemployment rate; Wikipedia: List of U.S. states by unemployment rate ; Wikipedia: Union affiliation by U.S. state; Wikipedia: List of U.S. minimum wages

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: DE

Delaware is the latchkey kid capital of America, with 71.8% of households having both parents in the labor force.

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