Unemployment varies over time, but it tends to peak during periods of recession and fall during periods of economic health, stability, and GDP growth. The graph below depicts the U.S. unemployment ...

These are the most recent figures on this topic. View the previous figures here. © ANP / Peter Hilz Unemployment stood at 392 thousand in February 2025. The highest ...

Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, said that “further progress may be delayed” on inflation because of tariffs. Officials kept ...

Continuing claims (also called insured unemployment) tend to be significantly ... This phenomenon can be observed in the graph below from FRED, in which both the red (initial claims) and green ...