State-level unemployment claims can provide a real-time measure of national labor market conditions and the overall state of the economy. A rapid and widespread buildup of stress in state labor ...

Economists have viewed the U.S. labor market as resilient in recent months, but some warn that cracks have started to emerge – including among the country's Black workforce. The unemployment rate for ...

・Higher education consistently lowers unemployment risk. Federal data show that people with a bachelor’s degree or higher have unemployment rates roughly half those of individuals with only a high ...

Discover how the Great Recession caused shifts in structural unemployment, transforming job markets and leaving lasting economic impacts beyond cyclical trends.