The number of people unemployed for at least 27 weeks tops 1.8 million: ‘I’m considering myself semiretired at this point.’ ...

A low unemployment rate typically signals that an economy is generally healthy. The unemployment rate in the U.S. remained near a 50-year-low in April 2025 at 4.2% — plus, American employers added 177 ...

Not only are many unemployed adults feeling discouraged about their future job prospects, two-thirds say that, since losing their jobs, they have seriously considered changing their occupation or ...

One characteristic distinguishes the long-term unemployed from the rest of America’s jobless. It isn’t how many hours they worked at their old job, or what industry they came from, or even ...

Unemployed people are no longer afraid to look desperate. A new trend on LinkedIn has prompted users open for work to use a banner reading "#Desperate" on their profiles to signal to employers ...

Adding insult to injury, unemployed older workers often face discrimination while looking for a new job. Calculations based on Federal Reserve data show that in 2019, just before the recession, 12 ...

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