Structural unemployment is a longer-lasting form of unemployment caused by fundamental shifts in an economy and exacerbated by extraneous factors such as technology, competition, and government ...

The number of people at work is generally closely related to whether an economy is growing at a reasonable rate At the peak of the worldwide recession that began in 2008, the International Labor ...

For Black men age 20 and older, the unemployment rate notably declined to 5.5% in February from 6.9% in January.

Jobless claims—reported every Friday by the Department of Labor—are the total unemployment benefits applications filed during a given week. Jobless claims refer to the number of individuals ...