According to the Census Bureau, the US working-age population in July 2017 was around 326 million. At the same time, the labor force was 203.75 million, and the total number of people employed was 195 million. According to these numbers, the US labor-force participation rate and unemployment rate in July 2017 were: 62.5% and 2.7 % 95.7% and 2.7% 62.5% and 4.3 % 59.9% and 4.3 %

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