"Is employment below or above the level of last month?" "What has happened to prices during the past month?" Such questions—and thousands of others about a wide range of labor related topics—are answered by...

The federal government measures both the mean (average) of the nation's workers and the median earnings (one-half earn more than this figure, and one-half earn less than this figure) of the nation's workers. Income is the total amount...

While no longitudinal study has yet examined the entire working life of any group of Americans, which would be necessary to compile data that statistically documents how many job changes may be expected during one's work life, many career...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), a unit of the United States Department of Labor, is the principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. The BLS is an independent national statistical...

Union membership dropped to 12 percent of U.S. workers last year, extending a steady decline from the 1950s when more than a third belonged to unions.After membership had held steady at 12.5 percent in 2005, it declined anew last year, a decrease of more than...

A North Carolina waitress on Saturday lauded the Democratic-initiated increase in the minimum wage, saying in the party's weekly radio address that the extra money will have a ripple effect on millions of lives.Fawn Townsend, a nightshift server in Raleigh, N.C., criticized Republicans for blocking...