While the unemployment rate remains near a 50-year low, another measure of worker well-being indicates there may be bigger cracks in the labor market. The low unemployment rate, which stood at 4.2% in ...

And Black Americans are experiencing a particularly high unemployment rate. Plus: Energy capacity, bank lending, and free pay ...

The number of people who said they were unemployed in May jumped to an eight-year high if the pandemic era is excluded, offering clear evidence that jobs have become harder to find during a chaotic ...

WASHINGTON – When Carly Kaprive left a job in Kansas City and moved to Chicago a year ago, she figured it would take three to six months to find a new position. After all, the 32-year old project ...

Unemployed parents are on the rise in a number of U.S. states, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data, which Newsweek has mapped. The share of children living with no parents in the labor force ...

A low unemployment rate typically signals that an economy is generally healthy. The unemployment rate in the U.S. remained near a 50-year-low in April 2025 at 4.2% — plus, American employers added 177 ...