The pace of job growth cooled through mid-2025, while the unemployment rate rose relatively little. This seeming puzzle is ...

Learn about the U.S. civilian labor force: who it includes, who it excludes, and how it affects unemployment stats, according ...

CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s labor force participation rate peaked at 55% following an extreme drop following the COVID-19 pandemic, but a steady drop in both labor force participation and increases ...

September’s jobs report surprised markets with stronger-than-expected payroll growth, while the unemployment rate also rose, due to a surge in labor force participation. This divergence is explained ...

In this post, I decompose the recent decline in LFPR into changes in the composition of the population and in workers' willingness to supply labor. I find that the reduction in the foreign-born ...

Cost of living is outpacing wages and West Virginia continues to have the lowest workforce participation rate in the country ...

The unemployment rate in Maine dropped slightly in November, but has remained pretty steady over the last year. However, the ...

The January 2026 National Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) report shows that employment outcomes for working-aged people with disabilities reached all-time highs in November and December 2025, ...

Notably, these levels are well above those observed during the 2024 holiday shopping season," remarked John O'Neill, PhD , director of the Center for Employment and Disability Research at Kessler ...