Unemployment Numbers The Bureau of Labor Statistics is charge of the important task of monitoring and publishing unemployment numbers for the United States every month. These numbers have been especially critical and highly followed over the past few years as the United States experienced a severe recession and the slower than hoped economic recovery that [...]
Unemployment Rate By State The unemployment rate by state varies greatly throughout the United States. It was hoped that the economic recovery of the country was going to be accelerated due to the creation and passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (also known as the “ARRA” or erroneously as the “American [...]
Labor Department Unemployment The United States Department of Labor (“Labor Department”) was initially created in 1888 by Congress and was known as the “Bureau of Labor” and subject to the United States Department of Interior. Later into the future the Bureau of Labor was again shifted into the Department of Commerce and Labor in 1903. [...]
