Employment growth has consistently come in above pre-pandemic estimates of the rate needed for unemployment to stay near its long-run natural rate. Even so, unemployment has held steady, which raises ...

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.

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco says that the natural rate of unemployment has fluctuated between 4.5% and 5.5% over the last century.

While the unemployment rate remains near a 50-year low, another measure of worker well-being indicates there may be bigger cracks in the labor market. The low unemployment rate, which stood at 4.2 ...

Currently, the traditional unemployment rate for the nation is 4.1% but its U-6 rate is 7.7%. Through the first half of 2024, California’s U-6 rate was 9.6%, the highest of any state.

The Fed cut the Fed Funds rate by 50 basis points on September 18. The Fed’s twin mandate, keeping inflation under control and aiming for low unemployment is really in the service of the ...

Unemployment jumped from 8.6% to 12.3% among 20-somethings with bachelor’s degrees year over year, ... “Which is pretty high when you think about the overall unemployment rate right now is 3.8 ...

That's according to a new report from Oxford Economics which shows that unemployed recent college grads account for 12% of an 85% rise in the national unemployment rate since mid-2023.

The BLS report showed that the unemployment rate for all women veterans was 3.7% in December, but the rate for post-9/11 women veterans was 5.3%. "It's something to keep an eye on," Rasch said.