Cyclical unemployment is unemployment driven by the business or economic cycle. It can be important for investors to understand. Read on to learn more.

While the government shutdown left us without recent economic data, the rising Black unemployment rate reveals essential truths about the state of our economy. Every month, the Bureau of Labor ...

The U.S. labor market is weaker than headline unemployment data suggests, with rising involuntary part-time work masking underlying instability. Large companies continue to dominate hiring, while ...

On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released revised preliminary benchmarking data showing that close to a million fewer jobs were added to the U.S. economy in the 12 months ending in March ...

Goldman Sachs has put a bolder stake in the ground on where Unemployment is headed, and the call is forcing investors and workers alike to rethink what a "soft landing" really looks like. The bank's ...

The Obama administration's dogged pursuit of extensions on unemployment insurance is hurting the economy. That, at least, is the argument outlined by economist Robert Barro in The Wall Street Journal.