Unemployment refers to the situation where people who are capable of working and are actively seeking jobs cannot find any work opportunities. High rates of unemployment signal economic distress, ...

The relationship between unemployment and suicide is well established. But is the persistence of long-term unemployment an added factor in the rising suicide rate these days, especially for older ...

Have you seen a job posting that declared, along with a need to have a degree and experience doing x, y, and z, that candidates must be employed? According to the New York Times, this is becoming more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the unemployment rate remains near a 50-year low, another measure of worker well-being indicates there may be bigger cracks ...

Mark, 22 and unemployed, sleeps late in the morning. His roommate has to get up for work, but Mark has nowhere to be. He rolls out of bed at 11 a.m. He checks his email — still no response to his last ...

PolitiFact | In a June report, 5.4 million people did not qualify as unemployed because they were not actively looking for work. Louis Jacobson is the chief correspondent for PolitiFact and a staff ...

One characteristic distinguishes the long-term unemployed from the rest of America’s jobless. It isn’t how many hours they worked at their old job, or what industry they came from, or even their level ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link For millions of Americans, the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything. Unemployment spiked from a near-record low of 3.5% to a whopping 14.8% ...

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% in ...