Friday’s U.S. unemployment report, showing employers nationwide added only a net 18,000 in June, was a sobering moment for optimists looking for an economic recovery, but sometimes a picture says it ...

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In March, the New York Times gave up its most valuable real estate—the right-hand column—for a bar chart that showed the staggering and unprecedented 3.3 million unemployment claims brought on by the ...

Unemployment looks normal for everyone except those out of work for six months or longer. If we don't act soon, the long-term unemployed will become unemployable. There's a new cliff in town, and it's ...

As I have commented previously, as in the October 30 post, in my opinion the official methodologies used to measure the various job loss and unemployment statistics do not provide an accurate ...

Job openings hit a new record high in May, while unemployment is still around 6%. That's weird because historically, openings go up as unemployment goes down. The pandemic has at least temporarily ...