The unemployment rate is at 4.2 percent, but the number of people who aren't working as much as they want to be is nearly ...

Over the last year, about 1 million workers have thrown in the towel. In June alone, 720,000 people left the workforce. Here ...

A drop in the unemployment rate helped provide some upside to what was an otherwise downbeat jobs report — but it was for all ...

The unemployment rate is at a healthy 4.2 percent, but economists warn that it actually might be higher than that.

The U.S. labor market has become one of the economy’s biggest contradictions. Monthly payroll reports continue to show ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. The latest jobs report warns policymakers that immigration ...

Economists say June’s modest job gains point to a stagnant, low-hire labor market where people are continuing to have a hard ...

The June jobs report landed with a thud on Thursday. Just 57,000 jobs were added, well below expectations, and the labor ...

The share of American men in the labor force reached a record low this spring, fueled by baby-boomer retirees and young men who are dropping out to study or because they are disabled or sick. (The ...

In the latest jobs report, out Friday, there’s some details to like and and some to be worried about. On the “maybe we should worry about this” side, the labor force participation rate — aka the ...

Friday's Bureau of Labor Statistics report dropped with a thud, showing a loss of 92,000 jobs in February. But we took a closer look at the data to see what other signals it may contain of what’s to ...