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.

To understand what’s happened to teen summer employment, Pew Research Center relied on monthly employment data gathered by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.We specifically looked at the ...

About 58.6% of the adult civilian population had a job as of April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This rate -- officially called the "employment-population ratio" has barely budged ...

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 ...

Here's what that graph (via Brookings) says.In the last ten years, job growth in America's non-health-care economy has been dreadful. Just 2.1 percent total -- or barely 0.2 percent per year.

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 ...

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 ...