Unemployment has many types, causes, and specific features. While the pandemic and its aftermath created considerable economic shifts, unemployment has always ebbed and flowed for several reasons.

Downturns in the business cycle cause cyclical unemployment, so policymakers should focus on expanding output, which can be achieved by stimulating demand.

Just this week, on Sept. 20, the agency said that the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits reached the lowest level in almost 49 years. Unemployment benefits track changes in the ...

(NewsNation) — Unemployment can be voluntary, like when you leave one job for a higher-paying one, or it can be involuntary, when you’re fired or laid off. Cyclical unemployment: Fluctuates during ...

You may know the unemployment rate as the share of people in the U.S. who do not have a job – but there’s more to it than that. The unemployment rate can be a critical indicator of the health of the ...

The state Division of Employment Security says it is battling a new type of unemployment fraud, one that involves fake businesses, fake workers and false claims of unemployment. More than a quarter ...

This is $300 a week of supplemental employment benefits (although it was as high as $600 a week). These unemployment benefits provided financial relief to those who already exhausted their state’s ...

Unemployment has many shapes, forms, and causes. The pandemic and its aftermath created macroeconomic shifts in the job market. While some had more opportunities for work than before, the U.S., at ...