The federal funds rate now stands at 2 percent, a 40-year low.

Over the last year, unemployment has run well above the national average, standing at 8.5 percent in March.

With the December results, the 1988 average stood at 56.4 percent.

The overnight rate stood at 2 percent in March 2002.

In 1972, support for the equal access to jobs stood at 97 percent.

As of late last week, they stood at 5.50 percent.

That rate has stood at 7 percent for more than four years.

Two years earlier the figure stood at just 2.5 percent.

New jobs were being created, but unemployment still stood at around 18 percent.

It now stands at 4.5 percent and will probably rise further.