Last month the unemployment rate among teenagers aged 16 to 19 was just 9.6 percent. This is a remarkably low rate. You would have to search...

Every year the Bureau of Labor Statistics issues a report on the employment characteristics of families. The most recent report, with annual...

The unemployment rate jumped to 14.7 percent in April—more than three times the 4.4 percent rate of March, according to the Bureau of Labor ...

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

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

Among the nation's employed adults, here are the percentages who would be willing to do the following to avoid being unemployed... 87%...

That's the question asked by Census Bureau researchers in a  Research Matters blog  post. With the economy picking up steam, builders an...

More than one-third of Americans (37 percent) have been unemployed for as long as a month at some point in the past 10 years, according to r...

Looking for work became a bigger job after the Great Recession, according to an analysis of American Time Use Survey data by the Federal Res...

More than one in five men (22 percent) have experienced long-term unemployment during their career, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistic...

What's that again? Homeownership hurts rather than helps the job market? That's what economists David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. ...

Among the 3.2 million young people who graduated from high school in 2012, about a third (or 1.1 million) did not enroll in college. Their u...

How are recent college graduates doing? The Bureau of Labor Statistics wanted to find out, so it drilled down into the October 2011 school e...

There are three reasons for going to college, according to Richard Vedder, Christopher Denhart, and Jonathan Robe in their provocative polic...

The Great Recession drained the retirement savings of boomers, forcing many to work years longer than they had planned. Are these working bo...

The unemployment rate of 20-to-24-year-olds in the United States, at 14.6 percent in 2011, is well below the rate in Spain, Italy, France, a...

Nearly one in three (32%) Americans aged 18 to 29 is underemployed, according to a Gallup survey--meaning they are unemployed or part timers...

Among young adults who graduated from high school in 2011, more than one in four (26.7 percent) are looking for a job. This stunningly high ...

The unemployed who found a job in 2011 had been job hunting for a median of 10.0 weeks. This was slightly shorter than the 10.4 weeks of 201...

Black workers have been especially hurt by the Great Recession and the weak economic recovery. The black unemployment rate was 15.8 percent ...