The National Conference of State Legislatures breaks down some recent job statistics and trends. A few of the numbers:

• 5 million new workers in health care from 1997 to 2012
• 77.5% — growth in the mining industry in that same time period
• 157 million – number of people 16 and over in the nation’s labor force in June 2015
• 15 million – number of female workers 16 and over in service occupations in 2013 male workers numbered 11.6 million
• 86.1 – percentage of full-time, year-round workers ages 18 to 64 with health insurance during all or part of 2013
• 76.4 – percentage of workers who drove alone to work in 2013
• 25.8 – average time in minutes it took workers to commute to their jobs in 2013
• 4.4 – percentage who worked from home in 2013