New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has launched a small debate about the nature of today's ongoing unemployment crisis. Is it "structural," meaning that it reflects a "natural" shift in the way ...

What is needed to have 100% employment in America? Is it possible to have 100% employment? The U.S. labor market is weakening, but just last year the unemployment rate hit 3.4%, a 50-year low. It was ...

The June employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics would have been viewed as punk under any circumstances. But given the stage of the recovery and the massive doses of fiscal and monetary ...

Among all the reasons advanced to explain Democrats’ defeat at the polls, structural unemployment has gotten little or no mention. Technological advancement creates demand for new skills (software ...

(Reuters) - There is little evidence that the bulk of U.S. unemployment today is structural, but such a problem could develop if more people don't find work quickly, the Wall Street Journal reported, ...

In 1994, South Africa emerged from apartheid with global goodwill, democratic legitimacy and the promise of shared prosperity. Yet three decades later, that promise remains unfulfilled. With an ...