Jul 16, 2015 ... There are more job openings available in America today than at any point since  the Bureau of Labor Statistics first started tracking vacancy data back in ... the  share of Americans at least 16 years old who are either employed or actively  looking for work – dipped last month to a 38-year low, clocking in at an ...
Jun 8, 2016 ... Some 59 percent of those who have been out of work for two years or more say  they have stopped looking, the Harris Poll of unemployed Americans ... seen over  the last decade or so is due to three factors: retiring baby boomers just leaving  the labor force, college students getting more education than ever ...
Jun 9, 2017 ... In the summer of 1978, 60 percent of teens were working or looking for work. Last  summer, just 35 percent were. Why did American teens stop trying to get summer  jobs? One typical answer is: They're just kids, and kids are getting lazier. One can  rule out that hypothesis pretty quickly. The number of teens ...
Mar 18, 2016 ... These individuals will lose their food assistance benefits after three months  regardless of how hard they are looking for work. The impact will be felt in the 22  states that must or are choosing to reimpose the time limit in 2016. More than  500,000 and as many as 1 million of the nation's poorest people will be ...
Jan 18, 2017 ... As President Barack Obama prepares to leave the White House, we look at his  legacy for creating jobs, including wage growth, unemployment rates, ... On the  other hand, Donald Trump's claim that the “true” unemployment rate is more like  42% because more than 90 million Americans don't have jobs is ...
Last month, more Americans stopped looking for a job than found one.