The New York Times has a fascinating graph showing how the unemployment rate has grown for every measured demographic group during the recession (ht: Ray). Nationwide, unemployment has averaged 8.6% ...

In March, the New York Times gave up its most valuable real estate—the right-hand column—for a bar chart that showed the staggering and unprecedented 3.3 million unemployment claims brought on by the ...

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Friday’s U.S. unemployment report, showing employers nationwide added only a net 18,000 in June, was a sobering moment for optimists looking for an economic recovery, but sometimes a picture says it ...

Europe's job market is a historic disaster. The EU unemployment rate set a new all-time high of 12.2 percent, according to today's estimates. But it's the youth unemployment crisis that's truly ...

In March 2012, Spain and Greece passed an unenviable landmark of 50% youth unemployment. That means there were more Spanish and Greek workers under 25 without a job than with one. Six months later, it ...