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The unemployment rate for Americans without a high school degree stopped falling more than 2 years ago, after 7 years of improvement post-2010.

Their labor force participation rate stopped rising around then too.
The share Americans without a high school degree who are employed stopped rising 1-2 years ago, after rising for 5-6 years.
The unemployment rate for Americans with exactly a high school degree stopped falling about a year ago, per original post. But their employment share has been rising recently.
The only education group whose employment share has increased since the end of the Great Recession (all series set to value=100 then) is those without a high school degree, though their progress stalled in late 2018.

Small surge for HS only lately.
Biggest drop but only group back to pre-GR levels.
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