Whether someone's recently graduated or lost their job due to a layoff or firing, chances are they're looking for a new gig. Between the lack of open positions and the fierce competition for good jobs ...

The unemployment rate has been falling sharply alongside a sizable drop in labor force participation. The labor force participation rate is the ratio of Americans counted in the labor force to the ...

Bill Horne, a computer security engineer from Sharon, Mass., has been looking for a job since February 2008. But after sending out 220 resumes and getting only a few job interviews that went nowhere, ...

The U.S. population is growing. In normal times, the labor force — working or not — would be growing too. But these are not normal times, and the labor force is actually smaller than it was four years ...

Chart 1: Those not in the labor force who currently want a job. The unemployment rate has been falling sharply alongside a sizable drop in labor force participation. The labor force participation rate ...