Cyclical unemployment is unemployment driven by the business or economic cycle. It can be important for investors to ...

While the government shutdown left us without recent economic data, the rising Black unemployment rate reveals essential truths about the state of our economy. Every month, the Bureau of Labor ...

The U.S. labor market is weaker than headline unemployment data suggests, with rising involuntary part-time work masking underlying instability. Large companies continue to dominate hiring, while ...

Unemployment is always a major factor in any labor market. The often-cited unemployment rate represents people who are not currently employed and have been looking for a job for the past 30 days. The ...

Forecasters believe U.S. employment numbers expanded modestly in December, extending a streak of labor market weakness that ...

Unemployment data released on Friday was not warmly greeted by millions of Americans. The overall unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3% in August, up from 4.2% in July. And just 22,000 jobs were added ...

On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released revised preliminary benchmarking data showing that close to a million fewer jobs were added to the U.S. economy in the 12 months ending in March ...