Data Feed: Unemployment top priority, tech-exec pay packages, bullying’s long-term impact
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
Significant minorities in several nations of the Americas say high unemployment would justify a military takeover of their country's government.
The median number of weeks without work among unemployed Americans (as of December).
Nearly four-in-ten unemployed Americans have been out of work for at least six months.
A map from the Washington Post shows the states where the expiration of unemployment benefits on Saturday will have the most impact.
A look at 80+ years of economic history shows a complicated relationship between inflation and unemployment.
42 months after U.S. payrolls bottomed out, the economy still hasn't recovered all 8.7 million jobs wiped out in the Great Recession -- the longest and slowest recovery in the postwar era.
Much has changed for African-Americans since the 1963 March on Washington (which, recall, was a march for "Jobs and Freedom"), but one thing hasn't: The unemployment rate among blacks is still about double that among whites, as it has been for most of the past six decades.
Every month when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its jobs report, people home in on one particular metric: the unemployment rate. But there are a lot of other interesting and potentially significant data in the report, though interpreting them appropriately can be tricky. Take, for example, the duration of unemployment. There’sĀ little doubt that more […]