The pace of job growth cooled through mid-2025, while the unemployment rate rose relatively little. This seeming puzzle is ...

WASHINGTON — The trend was clear and consistent. Since the end of World War II and stretching to the start of the current millennium, the percentage of American women entering the labor force rose ...

Learn about the U.S. civilian labor force: who it includes, who it excludes, and how it affects unemployment stats, according ...

During the pandemic, mothers saw a dramatic increase in workforce participation levels. however, since the beginning of 2025, those levels have seen continuous declines eliminating their pandemic ...

The labor force participation rate — how much of the working age population has a job or is looking for one — held at 62.7% percent last month, according to the latest jobs report released Friday.

Less flexibility means fewer working moms. The historic surge in employment among working mothers seen during the pandemic has reversed sharply in 2025, as new data reveal tens of thousands of ...

While the unemployment figure dropped slightly in March, what caught everyone's attention was the 500,000 who left the workforce, no longer working or looking for work, prompting the Washington Post ...

CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s labor force participation rate peaked at 55% following an extreme drop following the COVID-19 pandemic, but a steady drop in both labor force participation and increases ...

Over the past generation, the work trends for older Americans were one of the bright spots in an otherwise decidedly mixed labor force picture. But that is no longer the case. Both employment and ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota's unemployment rate and labor participation force held steady in October. According to the Department of Employment and Economic Development, unemployment remained at 3.4% ...