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Many workers aren't working as much as they'd like. Here's what one expert says the federal unemployment rate fails to capture.
Its alternative measure, the T rue Rate of Unemployment (TRU), tells a very different story—one where millions remain stuck in unstable, low-paying jobs that don’t cover basic living costs.
Take a Look at Trump’s Actual Tariff Math, and You’ll See How Bad It Really Is What the tariff rates Trump rolled out yesterday made clear is that his goal isn’t, ultimately, to bring down ...
The unemployment rate can’t tell us everything happening in the job market. But the Labor Department is robust and transparent in its calculations.
Because of this, the unemployment rate among recent college graduates could continue to inch upward, according to Martin.
The first jobs report of President Donald Trump's second term Friday showed a troubling rise in the unemployment rate for all veterans from 2.8% in December to 4.2% in January.
Canada's unemployment rate in May jumped to its highest level in almost nine years, excluding the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 1.6 million jobless people in the country, data showed on Friday.
One of the most popular college majors has been found to have a 6.1 percent unemployment rate for recent grads, well above the 5.5 percent average rate for all recent grads.
Young people graduating from college this spring and summer are facing one of the toughest job markets in more than a decade. The unemployment rate for degree holders ages 22 to 27 has reached its ...
The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged and said that the risks of higher unemployment and higher inflation have risen, ...
Employers added 143,000 jobs in January amid LA wildfires, cold weather and uncertainty over President Trump's trade and immigration policies.
South Africa's unemployment rate rose in the first quarter of this year, with statisticians fretting that increasing numbers of people appear to have given up looking for work.