Labor force participation

About 3.5 million more people were working or looking for work in May than a year earlier. Economists hope the number keeps rising.

With the pandemic forcing school and daycare closures around the country, children are spending more time at home — and women are bearing the brunt of that.

A tight labor market has brought teen employment to its highest level in a decade.

With first-time jobless claims topping 30 million since mid-March, the Labor Department's April unemployment rate may under-count job loss.

The latest jobs numbers suggest that more people are looking for work, with the labor force participation rate ticking up a bit in December. So who’s looking for work, and what’s driving them back into the job market? To find out, we talked to some people who are looking for a job and some who […]

The Labor Department’s jobs report for December was unequivocally strong, but it can be hard to square a good month of hiring with predictions of an economic slowdown and the market turbulence as of late. But when it comes to economic data, there’s a difference between learning how the economy’s been doing and how the […]

Women work in professions that are more resistant to the business cycle and therefore more stable, one expert says.

The U.S. workforce reached "peak men" a long time ago. Now what?