While the government is shut down, the BLS is no longer reporting unemployment data. However, alternatives exist that we can watch in the meantime. These alternatives are mixed but are overall ...

The Labor Department is planning to require states to hand over sensitive unemployment information in the name of fighting fraud. The plan, detailed in a notice of proposed rulemaking issued on Friday ...

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 ...

The September jobs data captured the most confusing economic backdrop in some time: a messy, mixed picture. There was an apparent burst of hiring, but also the highest unemployment rate in four years ...

Only California and Washington, D.C., have higher jobless rates as the New Jersey businesses continue to shed thousands of positions.