Low Unemployment's Economic Challenges: Inflation & Productivity

Learn how very low unemployment can lead to inflation and productivity challenges, impacting the economy's full potential.
San Francisco Fed

Assessing the Recent Rise in Unemployment

The unemployment rate has risen over half a percentage point since the second quarter of 2023. Individual survey data underlying the unemployment rate can help in assessing which labor market ...

Exclusive-Bostic says Fed cannot offset possible rise in structural unemployment

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. may be entering a period of structurally higher unemployment as firms deploy artificial intelligence tools to save labor, a potentially ...
Marketplace

Is the 4.2% unemployment rate truly capturing what’s happening in the labor market?

The unemployment rate can’t tell us everything happening in the job market. But the Labor Department is robust and transparent in its calculations. I hear a lot of people talking about the ...
CNN

Trump’s long, tortured relationship with the unemployment rate just got worse

When jobs or inflation data counter President Donald Trump’s preferred economic narrative, he typically offers alternative statistics to shine a more positive light on the economy. But Trump’s latest ...