job loss and raise the national unemployment rate. However, this issue brief shows that the experience of 22 countries … is no statistically significant relationship between national unemployment rates and legally-mandated access to paid sick …

From the early 1990s through the peak of the last business cycle, relatively low U.S. unemployment rates seemed to make … (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and other international organizations all praised the U.S. unemployment … shows that in the current economic crisis, the U.S. unemployment rate ranks 4th to last among the major OECD countries. …

measures of long-term hardship by race and gender, education, and age. In addition to the conventional long-term unemployment … Bureau of Labor Statistic’s “U-6” alternative unemployment rate, which adds “discouraged” workers, the “marginally attached …,” and workers who are “part-time for economic reasons” to the official unemployment rate. …

The official concept of “long-term unemployment,” while useful, is incomplete and, in some cases, even potentially …-term unemployment in two ways. First, we encourage shifting from a narrow focus on long-term unemployment toward a broader concept of …-term unemployment – including “discouraged” and “marginally attached” workers and those involuntarily working part-time jobs – face long …

period of high unemployment, when it is reasonable to expect the beneficial effects of volunteering to be especially …

In the current recession, millions of Americans have lost their jobs. Unemployment has increased nationwide to levels …

In 1982, the United States experienced the highest annual unemployment rate since the Great Depression – 9.7 percent …. In principle, that rate is directly comparable to the 8.1 percent seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for February 2009 …, and suggests that current unemployment is still not as bad as it was in 1982. The official unemployment rate, however …