Unemployment rate

President Joe Biden speaking about foreign policy during a speech at the State Department in DC, January 13 (Credit: Susan Walsh/AP Photo) As President Joe...

  Black women saw an uptick in unemployment in December despite the overall rate of job loss declining in the U.S., new data from the...

  American veterans who served after Sept. 11, 2001, experienced a 50 percent drop in their unemployment rate over the past four years, but the...

Health care reform under the Affordable Care Act is off to a sickly start. There have been problems with the main marketplace website, calls for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ resignation, tepid enrollment numbers, and a series of presidential apologies. But there’s some good news amid all the bad: A new report from the J ...

    Michigan workers were hit hard by the Great Recession but the state’s African American workers continue to...

(LANSING, Mich.) -- Unemployment went up in all of Michigan's major labor markets, including in the Detroit area, but officials say...

The job market ended 2012 with more growth, as moderate hiring continued at the end of the year. The economy...

While Friday's news that the overall unemployment rate dropped to 7.8 percent generated headlines and unfounded conservative allegations that the monthly...

The nation’s unemployment rate dropped below 8 percent in September to its lowest rate since President Obama took office, the Labor...