The U.S. economy added 321,000 jobs in November. While that number is startlingly high relative to just about any month in the last three years, it was not enough to push the unemployment rate needle--which still sits at 5.8%, according to the Department...

The U.S. economy added another 200,000+ jobs in October, and the unemployment rate is now down to 5.8%, according to the Department of Labor . The labor force participation is back up to 62.8% (from 62.7% in September--not a significant difference). Here's...

As Princeton professor Harold James ears perked up when US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew talked about "philosophical differences" between US and European policymakers during the recent G20 summit. The choice of words lead James to consider just...

The unemployment rate has dropped below 6% after the U.S. economy added nearly a quarter million jobs in September. To be precise, there were 248,000 new jobs, and the unemployment rate is now at 5.9%, according to the Department of Labor . The labor...

Joseph Stiglitz is disappointed in Europe's policymakers and their inability to change course. "Austerity has failed," he writes. And yet, the idea that austerity measures will assist recovery persists. Perhaps, he notes, because the EU...

The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University has released the results of a comprehensive study of long-term-unemployed Americans. In the report on the survey, Carl Van Horn , Cliff Zukin , and Allison Kopicki share grim...

With her non-profit business, Samasource , Leila Janah is trying to fight the harms of the "birth lottery"--people getting trapped in poverty based on where they are born rather than on their work ethic. In this Big Think interview, she talks...

We track the unemployment rate fairly closely. But we also make sure with each jobs report to look at the labor force participation rate, because that helps us better understand how many people are without work. In this video from the Brookings Institution...

In the final post of their Liberty Street Economics series on the value of a college degree, New York Fed researchers Jaison Abel and Richard Deitz look at the job prospects of recent college grads. Those prospects were not so great for many college grads...

The U.S. economy added 142,000 jobs in August. That was enough to push the unemployment rate back down to 6.1%, according to the Department of Labor . The labor force participation was at 62.8% (it was 62.9% in July). Here's a look at the unemployment...

The unemployment rate remained flat in July, but remains improved from last year. The unemployment rate is now at 10.2% across the EU 28 and 11.5 % in the euro area, as estimated by Eurostat . Those numbers are down from 10.9% and 11.9% in July 2013....

From Marketplace 's Wealth and Poverty desk, Noel King reminds us that we can't begin to understand the events in Ferguson, Missouri without spending some time understanding the economic challenges that the St. Louis suburb has been facing, and...

We are learning more and more about the behavior of people seeking jobs since the recession. Cleveland Fed researchers have spent some time looking into how much time unemployed persons spent looking for jobs during the post recession years compared to...

The U.S. economy added 209,000 jobs in July. That was almost 80,000 fewer than June, but still a welcome increase. Yet it wasn't enough to push the unemployment rate down. Instead, it ticked up a little, and is now at 6.2%, according to the Department...

The unemployment rate has dropped to 6.1%, and yet we still read about a shortage of skilled workers. Brookings Senior Fellow Gary Burtless is a little skeptical of the "skills mismatch" narrative, so he looked a little more closely at some...

In 2012 California voters approved some tax increases that opponents argued would hurt employment in the state. Now, 18 months after the increases were put into effect, David Cay Johnston points out that the rate of job growth in California is outpacing...

If you were to assume that economies with labor shortages would not have high unemployment, and places with high unemployment would not have significant labor shortages, you would have a lot of company. And yet, China appears to be struggling with both...

What people have been politely calling "the unemployment situation" in the U.S. just got a bit better--at least as far as the central government data is concerned. The unemployment rate dropped to 6.1% in June, as the economy added 288,000 jobs...

At the Macroblog , Dave Altig , senior vice president and research director at the Atlanta Fed , takes a look at the impact of offshoring on unemployment. Looking at a variety of industries and their jobs data, Altig found significant shifts in what he...

President Obama went public with his administration's goal of jump-starting job creation through thawing the credit freeze that many small businesses have been struggling with over the last two years . In a town hall meeting in Nashua, NH, Obama pushed...

There was very little change to the US jobs picture in May, according to the Department of Labor . The unemployment rate is now at 8.2 percent after the economy added only 69,000 jobs during the month. The loss of jobs in the construction sector offset...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its official data on January job losses , and the US saw another sharp drop in nonfarm payroll employment. 598,000 jobs were lost last month, and unemployment continues to rise--it is now at 7.6%. The below...

While it may not be declining as quickly as many would like (especially those holding office and running for re-election), the unemployment rate has dropped over the last year. But an often overlooked factor is the number of Americans who drop out of...

We all watch the Labor Department 's monthly jobs reports very closely these days. Too closely? Boston Globe business correspondent Jay Fitzgerald spoke to some Boston-based economists and found that there is some serious skepticism about the narrative...

With Europe's leaders meeting today to take on the difficult task of righting the EU economy , Javier Solana , former General Secretary of NATO and former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, weighs in at Project Syndicate...