An increase in the structural unemployment rate may be caused by several different factors. Employers may want to hire people, but can't find people with the necessary skills. Or if unemployment ...

People have long pegged the structural unemployment rate at about 5%. That means that even when the economy is healthy there will still be a certain amount of people out of work. That happens for ...

The U.S. economy added 236,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate declined to 3.5 percent, as labor markets stayed tight despite interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve. Analysts were ...

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 ...

An increase in the structural unemployment rate may be caused by several different factors. Employers may want to hire people, but can’t find people with the necessary skills. Or if unemployment ...