Discover how the U-6 Unemployment Rate provides a comprehensive look at joblessness, including underemployment, marginal attachment, and discouraged workers. Understand its economic significance.

The participation rate and unemployment rate are both used to gauge the health of the job market but in completely different ways.

The first jobs report of President Donald Trump's second term Friday showed a troubling rise in the unemployment rate for all veterans from 2.8% in December to 4.2% in January, even as the jobless ...

The unemployment rate has risen over half a percentage point since the second quarter of 2023. Individual survey data underlying the unemployment rate can help in assessing which labor market ...

WASHINGTON, July 3 (Reuters) - U.S. job growth was unexpectedly solid in June, but nearly half of the increase in nonfarm payrolls came from the government sector, with private industry gains the ...

The unemployment rate can’t tell us everything happening in the job market. But the Labor Department is robust and transparent in its calculations. I hear a lot of people talking about the ...

Unemployment data released on Friday was not warmly greeted by millions of Americans. The overall unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3% in August, up from 4.2% in July. And just 22,000 jobs were added ...

According to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in August 2025, the national unemployment rate for the United States was 4.3%. While 22,000 new jobs were added in August, led by job ...