The unemployment rate is at a healthy 4.2 percent, but economists warn that it actually might be higher than that.

It's no secret that the employment data released monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is basically a joke because BLS wildly undercounts the number of people who have given up looking for work or ...

There are cracks emerging in America’s strong job market. The number of “discouraged workers” jumped 21% in a month, according to the Labor Department. “They are the ones that believe that there were ...

Low unemployment is not drawing discouraged workers back into the job hunt, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City that undercuts one of the positive narratives about ...

The Springfield News-Sun is committed to providing readers with news about jobs and the region’s economy. We talked with local and state experts about the size of the region’s workforce and its ...