unemployment
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While unemployment has remained steady, job growth has see-sawed wildly between expansion and contraction in the last year, with new jobs heavily reliant on a single sector: health care.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
GDP growth came in at a robust 2.0 percent last quarter, unemployment is steady, the stock market is booming, and inflation -- while high -- is nowhere near its pandemic peak.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
The rate ticked up during the month as large tech companies including Meta Platforms announced large layoffs—but tech-employee unemployment remains lower than its 7% peak around mid-2025.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
The Fed cut a key interest rate three times last year to keep the unemployment rate from rising.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
The brutal era of sharecropping and Jim Crow was ending, but what followed was persistent unemployment and worsening poverty.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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