#unemployment rate

Back in 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy; an event that came to mark the beginning of a financial crisis. Employment rates sank, falling to levels that hadn’t been seen in decades. The future looked suddenly bleak. But ten years on, the picture is entirely different; the UK employment

It appears that approximately 96.2% of employable Americans have taken The Offspring’s advice. On Friday the Labor Department announced a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 3.8%. That marks the statistic’s lowest point since 2000. The last time it was lower? 1969 (*chuckles to self*). The

Water Cooler Talking Point: “I’d be lying if I said I didn’t live for this sh*t. It literally doesn’t get any better than capitalism rearing its ugly head. You’ve got 2M people watching ‘Billions’ weekly when this type of stuff is playing out in real life via the financial media every single day.

As the economy has been getting better, one number has been stubbornly high: the unemployment rate for Black Americans. While Black folks have always found it more difficult to find jobs than their white counterparts, the unemployment rate for African-Americans has remained in the double digits for