Here, we find especially good news: A new high in total employment and a seasonal low unemployment rate of 5.9%, comparable to past periods. Chart courtesy of Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis (FRED) ...

Employment rates for STEM Ph.D.s are down or stagnant across the board. ... But the graphs don’t lie. ... Note the red line hovering above 40 percent employment: Those are the postdocs.

The U.S. created only 136,000 jobs in September, following an increase of 168,000 in August (after an upward revision). The nonfarm payrolls were short of the analysts’ forecast of 150,000. The ...

Line graph showing how the employment rate dropped sharply at the beginning of the pandemic, and has now returned to projected levels Same with the labor force … 63.1% of adults ...

Employment growth has consistently come in above pre-pandemic estimates of the rate needed for unemployment to stay near its long-run natural rate. Even so, unemployment has held steady, which raises ...

The graph below depicts the U.S. unemployment rate (U-3 measure) from around 1948 to 2022. Shaded areas represent periods of recession. This graph shows the unemployment rate (blue line) and ...