• Nearly three years of a job-seekers ratio above 4-to-1

  January 10, 2012 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic Indicators

• A solid step in the right direction for the labor market

  January 6, 2012 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic Indicators

• Apparent good news a mirage for many states

  December 20, 2011 | By Doug Hall | Economic Indicators

• Job-seekers ratio remains above 4-to-1 for 34th straight month

  December 13, 2011 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic Indicators

• Job growth strengthens but insufficient to cure sick labor market

  December 2, 2011 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic Indicators

• State jobs data calls for ‘super shift’ to job creation

  November 22, 2011 | By Doug Hall | Economic Indicators

• Minimal improvement in job-finding prospects

  November 8, 2011 | By Elise Gould | Economic Indicators

• At this rate of job growth, the unemployment rate will stay disastrously high

  November 4, 2011 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic Indicators

• Best GDP growth in a year still not good enough

  October 27, 2011 | By Josh Bivens | Economic Indicators

• State employment trends stuck in neutral (or reverse)

  October 21, 2011 | By Doug Hall | Economic Indicators

• No improvement in job-finding prospects since the spring

  October 12, 2011 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic Indicators

• Miserably low job growth

  October 7, 2011 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic Indicators

• Weak economic recovery reflected in high state-level poverty and child poverty rates

  September 22, 2011 | By Doug Hall | Economic Indicators

• Four in 10 state economies heading in wrong direction

  September 16, 2011 | By Doug Hall | Economic Indicators

• A lost decade: Poverty and income trends continue to paint a bleak picture for working families

  September 14, 2011 | By Heidi Shierholz and Elise Gould | Multimedia

• 2010 marks another year of decline for employer-sponsored health insurance coverage

  September 13, 2011 | By Elise Gould | Multimedia

• Ongoing lack of job openings means no jobs for more than three out of four unemployed workers

  September 7, 2011 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic Indicators

• Zero job growth made worse by drop in weekly hours

  September 2, 2011 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic Indicators

• Job loss up in too many states

  August 19, 2011 | Economic Indicators

• Two-and-a-half years of a job-seeker’s ratio above 4-to-1

  August 10, 2011 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic Indicators

• Job growth still sputtering in lowest gear

  August 5, 2011 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic Indicators

• Slow economic growth raising unemployment rate

  July 29, 2011 | By Josh Bivens | Economic Indicators

• Job growth retreats in some states, mirrors national trend

  July 22, 2011 | By Doug Hall | Economic Indicators

• Job seekers ratio continues 29-month rut

  July 12, 2011 | By Lawrence Mishel | Economic Indicators

• Labor market in full retreat

  July 8, 2011 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic Indicators

• Some state job gains stall or slip into reverse

  June 17, 2011 | Economic Indicators

• A lack of want ads: the job market deteriorates

  June 7, 2011 | By Elise Gould | Economic Indicators

• Unemployment rises, recovery remains on pause

  June 3, 2011 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic Indicators

• Interactive map: State unemployment, April 2011

  May 20, 2011 | Economic Indicators

• Continuing dearth of job opportunities leaves many workers still sidelined

  May 11, 2011 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic Indicators