Employment growth has consistently come in above pre-pandemic estimates of the rate needed for unemployment to stay near its long-run natural rate. Even so, unemployment has held steady, which raises ...

The participation rate and unemployment rate are both used to gauge the health of the job market but in completely different ways.

Discover how the U-6 Unemployment Rate provides a comprehensive look at joblessness, including underemployment, marginal attachment, and discouraged workers. Understand its economic significance.

The unemployment rate can’t tell us everything happening in the job market. But the Labor Department is robust and transparent in its calculations. I hear a lot of people talking about the ...

How many people are out of work? What is the real unemployment rate? We don’t know. What we do know is that the true number is far higher than the unemployment rate at any given time. There are some ...

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has revealed that the unemployment rate for Black people is now at its highest level since 2021. According to the latest data, the unemployment rate for the ...

When jobs or inflation data counter President Donald Trump’s preferred economic narrative, he typically offers alternative statistics to shine a more positive light on the economy. But Trump’s latest ...

The unemployment rate in the District of Columbia was the worst in the United States for the third consecutive month in July at six percent, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) ...