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

Oklahoma City has achieved a new record in low unemployment, Mayor David Holt said, by keeping the city's unemployment rate below 4% over four consecutive years. In a post on X, Holt called the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Layoffs are up 54% year-over-year, pushing unemployment to highest levels since 2021. Pay raises for low- and middle-income households trail inflation, squeezing consumer budgets. Goldman Sachs ...

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.

Millions of federal employees are currently facing job uncertainty due to recent moves by the Trump administration, including deferred resignation offers and proposed spending freezes affecting ...