The unemployment rate can’t tell us everything happening in the job market. But the Labor Department is robust and transparent in its calculations. I hear a lot of people talking about the ...

According to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in August 2025, the national unemployment rate for the United States was 4.3%. While 22,000 new jobs were added in August, led by job ...

The unemployment rate in the District of Columbia was the worst in the United States for the third consecutive month in July at six percent, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) ...

State-level unemployment claims can provide a real-time measure of national labor market conditions and the overall state of the economy. A rapid and widespread buildup of stress in state labor ...

Learn the key differences between structural and cyclical unemployment, and understand their impact on the workforce and the ...

Monthly unemployment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that white men have seen a worse erosion of employment opportunities than white women and Black men, in the recent labor force ...

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