The Street outlines that continuing claims are continuing to trend down: The total number of Americans filing for unemployment look a bit ...

Bloomberg details: The new “normal” unemployment rate may now be 6.7 percent, rising as much as 1.7 percentage points from 5 percent before...

Part time workers for slack business conditions that is. Source: BLS

I relayed this morning that the unemployment report was: Better than expected Shows the U.S. has been adding jobs across the board for the f...

WSJ reports: The U.S. economy shed more jobs than expected in July while the unemployment rate held steady at 9.5%, a further sign the econ...

Bloomberg details: Employment fell in June for the first time this year, reflecting a drop in federal census workers and a smaller-than-for...

Bloomberg details: Japan’s industrial production and household spending slipped in May and the unemployment rate unexpectedly increased, in...

Yesterday we took a look at the (lack of) employment among teens ... today we look at employment of their parents. The BLS reports: Forty-f...

The WSJ reports: The euro zone's unemployment rate rose to its highest level for almost 12 years in April, while growth in manufacturin...

Europe is in a tough situation as all European economies are not in the same situation with regards to debt levels (i.e. solvency risk) or s...

Calculated Risk provides some additional details: According to the JOLTS report, there were 4.96 million hires in February (SA), and 3.957 ...

WSJ details: U.S. employers created jobs at the fastest pace in three years in March, but nearly one-third came from temporary hiring for t...

Business and Finance reports: Euro zone inflation was much higher than expected in March and the unemployment rate reached 10 percent in Fe...

BLS reports: Annual average unemployment rates rose in 2009 in all regions, divisions, and states, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics repor...

Traveling ALL week, so posts will be intermittent. I pointed out yesterday that for the first time in U.S. history, more women are in the w...

Source: Eurostat / BLS

In response to my post on 16-19 year old unemployment , reader MichaelGER asked: Why not do an EconomPic unemployment rate sugestion for th...

BusinessWeek details: Job openings in the U.S. fell in November to the lowest level in four months, a sign employers are reluctant to expan...

Newsweek details: We all know the type of person who came of age in the Great Depression. They are the grandmothers and grandfathers who ca...

The labor force has declined at the fastest pace over the last 12 months in more than 50 years. Which causes the unemployment rate to skew t...