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    Black unemployment rate is consistently twice that of whites

    Much has changed for African-Americans since the 1963 March on Washington (which, recall, was a march for “Jobs and Freedom”), but one thing hasn’t: The unemployment rate among blacks is still about double that among whites, as it has been for most of the past six decades.

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    Averages, medians and unemployment: Parsing the numbers

    Every month when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its jobs report, people home in on one particular metric: the unemployment rate. But there are a lot of other interesting and potentially significant data in the report, though interpreting them appropriately can be tricky. Take, for example, the duration of unemployment. There’s little doubt that more […]

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    Europe’s unemployment conundrum

    Continued high unemployment in Europe is fueling the debate over whether it is now time to stimulate the economy to spur job creation or to continue fiscal retrenchment to cut public debt.

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    Unemployment Ain’t All Bad

    Close to half of all Americans who spent some time unemployed during the recession say they enjoyed not having to work for a while.

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    Personal Cost of Being Unemployed

    Roughly four-in-ten Americans who spent some time unemployed during the recession say they experienced a strain in family relations while out of work.

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    Unemployment & Presidential Approval

    The unemployment rate stood at 7.6% when Obama took office; its rise, and the corresponding fall in Obama’s approval rating, so far mirrors Reagan’s first term.

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