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 ...

The share of Americans actively in the workforce hit a new low in June, extending a stretch of workers increasingly exiting employment or the job search. Continued unemployment claims - which count ...

Iowa's unemployment rate decreased to 3.5% in November, with the labor force participation rate holding steady at 67.5%.

The data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics also shows Indiana’s unemployment rate improved for a fifth month in a row, and remains better than the national rate. One measure of the strength ...

- Implementing justice reforms like expanding the state’s work release program, expanding the Fresh Start Act, and expungement of non-violent felony convictions Empower focuses on three policy areas: ...

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

Colorado’s unemployment rate has dropped again, following the trend of previous months. That comes as the national ...