Every week, the Department of Labor issues data detailing the number of people who filed for unemployment benefits in the previous week. According to Thursday's report, 385,000 people filed last ...

This graph shows you how diversified the US economy is. After reaching 10% unemployment after the crisis; all sectors have since contributed to create more and more jobs so we can now post a "near ...

At 9.8%, unemployment is still a serious problem in the U.S. So serious, that some economists believe that the problem is structural -- not cyclical. That would essentially means that there has ...

Unemployment: Chart Deconstruction of the Day. Mar. 29, 2010 1:50 AM ET 24 Comments. Vox Rationalis. ... which shows the recession now to be incrementally worse than the 1980-1983 cycle, ...

The US labor market has continued to flex its muscles amid a historically aggressive Federal Reserve tightening cycle. The unemployment rate is 3.7%, not too far from an over five-decade low of 3. ...

As noted above, cyclical and structural unemployment can be hard to sort out. One way around this is to find a group of workers who should do well if the problem is structural, and see how they ...

Unemployment can be voluntary, like when you leave one job for a higher-paying one, or it can be involuntary, when you're ...

In contrast, cyclical unemployment is directly related to the economic cycle. During a recession, demand for goods and services decreases, leading to job losses.

We could scarcely believe it. At 1:36 PM ET, we got an email with this as the subject: FED'S KOCHERLAKOTA WANTS RATE AT ZERO UNTIL 5.5% UNEMPLOYMENT Now if you don't know why this is so shocking ...

Rebecca Atkins filed more than 250 job applications, and felt like every one was going into a gaping chasm—one opened by the ...

Cyclical and structural unemployment In 2014, the unemployment rate fell faster than the Fed expected. However, Fed officials don’t agree on what caused the decline.

Cyclical unemployment is defined as workers losing their jobs due to business cycle fluctuations in output, i.e. the normal up and down movements in the economy as it cycles through booms and ...