According to the 2021 Current Population Survey, just 50 percent of the nation's married couples are dual-income—meaning both husband an...

A growing share of U.S. workers say their employer is requiring Covid-19 vaccination, according to a Gallup survey. As of October, 36 percen...

The total number of workers in the U.S. labor force fell by 2.8 million in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Foreign-born workers accou...

The workforce is getting older as the Baby-Boom generation ages. Workers aged 55 or older will account for one in four workers by 2029, acco...

Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis are working furiously to measure the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. In...

The older workforce is large and getting larger. Workers aged 55 or older accounted for 24 percent of the nation's employed in 2019. Thi...

The median age of the labor force is projected to rise by another 0.6 years between now and 2028—from 41.9 in 2018 to 42.5 in 2028, accordin...

The stereotype of the starving artist must be laid to rest. A study of artists in the U.S. labor force by the National Endowment for the Art...

Seventeen percent of the labor force is "underutilized," according to an analysis by the National Center for Education Statistics ...

The government shutdown is now in its 34th day, with an estimated 800,000-plus furloughed workers missing their paychecks. Just who are thes...

Every parent in the household is employed in the great majority of families with children under age 6, according to 2017 data from the Burea...

Foreign-born workers are a large share of the information technology (IT) labor force in the United States. The Bureau of Labor Statistics e...

How many years of work life remain for men and women at age 50? That depends on their educational attainment, according to a study published...

The educational attainment of American workers has soared since the 1970s, when well-educated Boomers began pouring into the labor force. Am...

Slowly but steadily, the labor force is becoming more diverse. The latest projections by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the non-Hispani...

The number of workers aged 65 or older is projected to grow by an enormous 58 percent between 2016 and 2026, according to Bureau of Labor Fo...

A new survey promises to provide interesting details on labor force trends. The New York Fed's Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) Lab...

A new survey finds both good and bad conditions in workplaces across the country. According to RAND's American Working Conditions Survey...

College graduates are a big reason for the rising rate of labor force participation among people aged 65 or older, according to an Urban Ins...

Young men are working fewer hours than they once did, and a new study suggests a novel reason for the decline—better video games. Between ...