The pace of job growth cooled through mid-2025, while the unemployment rate rose relatively little. This seeming puzzle is ...

Learn about the U.S. civilian labor force: who it includes, who it excludes, and how it affects unemployment stats, according ...

The share of Americans actively in the workforce hit a new low in June, extending a stretch of workers increasingly exiting employment or the job search. Continued unemployment claims - which count ...

CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s labor force participation rate peaked at 55% following an extreme drop following the COVID-19 pandemic, but a steady drop in both labor force participation and increases ...

Over the past generation, the work trends for older Americans were one of the bright spots in an otherwise decidedly mixed labor force picture. But that is no longer the case. Both employment and ...

Iowa’s unemployment rate fell to 3.5% in November as more residents entered the workforce and job growth continued across ...

The unemployment rate in Maine dropped slightly in November, but has remained pretty steady over the last year. However, the ...