The low unemployment rate, which stood at 4.2% in April, has signaled to economists and investors alike that the U.S. economy remains relatively healthy.

Usually when the economy adds a lot of jobs in a given month the unemployment rate ticks down. That wasn’t the case in August. Despite the 187,000 new jobs added last month, the unemployment ...

In April, the official unemployment rate hovered around 4.2%, typically seen as a sign of a strong economy. But the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP) urges a deeper look.

The unemployment rate was 3.9% this past February, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Job growth of 275,000 also exceeded the forecast.

We propose that the natural rate of unemployment may have an active role in the business cycle, in contrast to a widespread view that the rate is fairly smooth and at most only weakly cyclical. We ...

The unemployment rate is more simply the number of people unemployed divided by the labour force (multiplied by 100). In general, low unemployment is associated with a growing economy. People are ...

The unemployment rate ticked up in May on the back of a decline in the number of employed workers largely among the group that makes up the Gen Z generation. The number of those with jobs fell by ...