Bureau of Labor Statistics

Detroit's Unemployment Rate Is Nearly 50%, According to the Detroit News

Posted 12.16.2009 | Business


Officially, Detroit's unemployment rate is just under 30 percent. But the city's mayor and local leaders are suggesting a far more disturbing figure -...

10 Industries That Will Lose The Most Jobs In Next Decade

Posted 12.16.2009 | Business


In a long-term assessment of employment data released last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics surveyed the country's jobs landscape and developed a ...

Will the Real Jobless Number Please Stand Up?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 12.12.2009 | Business


Dan Dorfman

A number of market professionals argue that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is stacking the employment deck by issuing misleading figures that paint a rosier picture of the country's mounting job losses.

Women's Wages Rose Faster Than Men's During Recession

Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business


The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau...

Even Santa Is Getting The Ax

Dan Dorfman | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business


Dan Dorfman

Money manager Arnold Silver has been told by some retailers in California and elsewhere that they won't hire any Santas this year -- or else hire far fewer of them -- in an effort to cut costs.

Things Are Getting Better

Max Wolff | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business


Max Wolff

Today, we are not all seized by panic as the financial world collapses atop our heads. It remains to be seen and tested how many of our deep structural problems have been fixed. I am skeptical.

Unemployment: 4.4 Million Americans Without A Job For Over 26 Weeks

calculatedriskblog.com | Posted 08.31.2009 | Business


The DOL report this morning showed seasonally adjusted insured unemployment at 6.2 million, down from a peak of about 6.9 million. This raises the que...

Arthur Delaney

Unemployment: The Worst-Hit Cities (MAP)

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business


Unemployment rates climbed in all U.S. metropolitan areas from last May to this May, the government announced on Tuesday. Of metro areas with a popu...

Racial Advancement on TV: Is the Progress Depicted Well-Intentioned Fantasy?

Michael Russnow | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media


Michael Russnow

I've been noticing over the past several years a tendency for the Media to depict racial togetherness in a manner that doesn't come close to representing reality.

Unemployed Men Struggle In Dating Game

AP | MEGAN K. SCOTT | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — Sean Hamilton considered stopping his search for that special someone when he lost his job in January. With 90 percent less income and...

America's Poor Give The Most To Charity

McClatchy | Frank Greve | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON -- When Jody Richards saw a homeless man begging outside a downtown McDonald's recently, he bought the man a cheeseburger. There's nothing ...

El Centro de Unemployment

Steve Proffitt | Posted 05.04.2009 | Living


Steve Proffitt

According to BLS data, the sinkhole of this recession is El Centro, a city in California's Imperial Valley, east of San Diego.

Hugging the Third Rail: Unemployment Is So Bad, Washington May Finally Cut Payroll Taxes

Stephen Kent | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics


Stephen Kent

Poll numbers and competing expert claims aside, how bad is unemployment based on the evidence? The answer, as I've discovered working on employment policy issues, is much worse than we think.

Dismal Metro Unemployment Numbers

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 01.02.2009 | Business


John Tepper Marlin

When the Governors appealed to President-elect Obama for help today, they had support from today's Bureau of Labor Statistics release of dismal Octob...

How Many People are Unemployed? No One Knows

Zachary Karabell | Posted 08.09.2008 | Business


Zachary Karabell

Our desire for certainty and reference points about the unemployment rate has turned these vague and loose statistics into Holy Grails of certainty. They aren't.

The Best (And Best-Paying) Jobs For 2008

Portfolio Via MSNBC | Chris Dannen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


If you're job hunting in the professional or service-oriented fields, we have good news. Of the ten categories into which the Bureau of Labor Statisti...