The Real Unemployment Rate Is Obscured And Worsening

The U.S. labor market is weaker than headline unemployment data suggests, with rising involuntary part-time work masking ...
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One in Four Need Work if We Calculate a “True” Unemployment Rate

How many people are out of work? What is the real unemployment rate? We don’t know. What we do know is that the true number is far higher than the unemployment rate at any given time. There are some ...
The Boston Globe

‘There is real damage being done’: Rising Black unemployment could signal deeper economic woes

The white unemployment rate of 3.7 percent, both nationally and in Massachusetts, has held fairly steady for the past year. White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said Black and Latino unemployment ...
New York Post

Recent graduates facing ‘deteriorated’ labor market as unemployment reaches highest level in years

Recent college graduates are aggressively hunting for their first job, but they are facing one significant problem: the labor market is deteriorating. Economic research from the Federal Reserve Bank ...
Los Angeles Times

UCLA forecasts ‘stagflation-lite’ economy with higher inflation and unemployment

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The U.S. economy will be hampered in the coming months by the Trump administration’s tariffs, which along with ...
The Conversation

What a surprise spike in the unemployment rate means for interest rates and the economy

Jeff Borland has received funding from the Australian Research Council. The rate of unemployment in Australia is on the rise again. Official labour force data released on Thursday shows that in the ...
The Boston Globe

Mass. job market remains stuck in low gear

The song remains the same for the Massachusetts job market. The unemployment rate was stuck at 4.8 percent in August for the fourth straight month, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data ...