Bureau of Labor Statistics

Justin Wolfers, Ford School professor and economists, says the most recent job report data shows that “This is a fundamentally healthy labor market, continuing its earlier momentum, albeit at a slightly slower...

Sixteen percent of Detroit residents in the labor force were unemployed as of March 2023, according to the latest survey from the University of Michigan's Detroit Metro Area Communities Study.  The latest unemployment estimate essentially holds...

Employers added 223,000 jobs in December 2022, capping a year marked by record low unemployment and high job growth. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5% with a slight increase in the labor force participation rate and employment rate, according...

As part of a Detroit Public TV special segment on the brutal economic effect of the COVID-19 recession on women, Betsey Stevenson discusses the precipitous drop in female labor force participation over the last year — a shocking 57% drop, to the...

Farm work was the heart of the American economy at one point, but the growth of cities and booming industrial revolution sent many flocking to cities, and farmworkers have been dwindling ever since. One stark illustration of this fall can be seen...

Luke Shaefer's article, "How should we define “low-wage” work? An analysis using the Current Population Survey," was published in the Monthly Labor Review, the flagship journal of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in October...