WASHINGTON -- The national unemployment rate ticked down to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent in February as the economy added a relatively impressive 236,...

Neal Cassel lost his job handling computer support for a law firm in October of last year. The Brandon, Fla., resident suspects that his status as one...

A new survey has found that hiring managers and recruiters believe it is easier to place a candidate who has a job -- but who also has a criminal reco...

As employers, we'd like to believe our companies and recruiting teams aren't any harder on unemployed candidates than their currently working counterparts. The facts, however, are saying something different.

Stay unemployed long enough, and you don't just bounce back once a job rolls around. People who have been out of work a long time tend to be unhapp...

-- J.R. Childress is up before the sun, bustling about in the French colonial brick house he built. He helps pack his wife's lunch, downs some eggs o...

College graduates and advanced degree holders, once they are unemployed, are as vulnerable as high school dropouts to long-term joblessness, a new stu...

For the long-term unemployed, getting a job isn't always the end of the story. Randy Howland spent most of this past year working at a $10-an-hour ...

It’s commonly assumed that unemployed people not receiving unemployment benefits have been unlucky enough to go without a job for so long that their...

For Baby Boomers who are out of a job, the picture isn't getting any brighter. People age 55 and older are still the most likely to be part of the ...

If you're one of those middle-aged folks, who had a good job and are now frozen in time, here's a to-do list to help get yourself back in the game.