Friday’s U.S. unemployment report, showing employers nationwide added only a net 18,000 in June, was a sobering moment for optimists looking for an economic recovery, but sometimes a picture says it ...

The U.S. labor market is weaker than headline unemployment data suggests, with rising involuntary part-time work masking ...

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In March, the New York Times gave up its most valuable real estate—the right-hand column—for a bar chart that showed the staggering and unprecedented 3.3 million unemployment claims brought on by the ...

Our friends at Clusterstock love their charts and they just updated the chart they like to call “The Scariest Job Chart Ever.” The chart, prepared by the blog Calculated Risk, compares how this U.S.

Unemployment looks normal for everyone except those out of work for six months or longer. If we don't act soon, the long-term unemployed will become unemployable. There's a new cliff in town, and it's ...

As I have commented previously, as in the October 30 post, in my opinion the official methodologies used to measure the various job loss and unemployment statistics do not provide an accurate ...

The unemployment rate fell slightly to 9 percent in October, according to this morning's big jobs report. But this single number hides a huge variation among different groups. For high school grads in ...

Art and economic policy are about as far apart as two subjects can be. One is an expression of human creativity. The other is the dismal science. But leave it to Andy Warhol to find a way to marry the ...

The unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest level in more than seven years, according to a jobs report released Friday. In August, 173,000 jobs were added, driving the unemployment rate down from ...