Unemployment

Economics

Euro-Area Unemployment Highest on Record

The 11.2 percent unemployment rate is the highest since 1995.

Reason Staff | 7.31.2012 10:20 AM

Politics

Scott Shackford on PJTV Talking Unemployment, Environmental Disasters and Fat-Fueled Battleships

Reason Staff | 7.10.2012 1:15 PM

Politics

June Jobs Report: Unemployment Holds Steady at 8.2 Percent

Peter Suderman | 7.6.2012 10:18 AM

Politics

Lingering Anxiety, Regulatory Fears, Better Productivity: Why Businesses Aren't Hiring

Nick Gillespie | 7.2.2012 11:53 AM

Politics

"State and Local Governments Are Hiring at the Fastest Pace in Four Years"

Nick Gillespie | 7.2.2012 9:28 AM

Politics

42 Straight Months of Stupidly Optimistic Official Predictions About Economic Recovery

Once-a-month quotes from the Obama administration and the media about how the economy will be booming any minute now.

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.27.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Top 5 Pieces of Good News in the Bad News

Tired of bad news? Maybe you're just taking it the wrong way.

Ed Krayewski | 6.16.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

New Yorker's John Cassidy Can't Count, Digs In Heels On Precious Continental Spellings

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.5.2012 4:38 PM

Politics

Reason Writers on the Tube: Matt Welch Talks About the Lousy Jobs Report on MSNBC's Jansing & Co.

Matt Welch | 6.1.2012 1:40 PM

Politics

Andrew Sullivan Nominates Tim Cavanaugh for Trig Palin Award

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.24.2012 3:30 PM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh on PJTV Talking Romney, Unemployment and Krugman: Updated with Kelly Thomas Palaver

Reason Staff | 5.10.2012 5:09 PM

Policy

High Unemployment the New Normal

The headline unemployment statistics are wrong. Unemployment is higher than 8.1 percent and it will be for a while.

Anthony Randazzo | 5.10.2012 4:00 PM

Politics

Sarkozy Defeat Prompts Euro Death Watch, Carla Bruni Reported "Disheveled"

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.6.2012 4:10 PM

Politics

Hysterity! Global Panic about "Austere" 9 Percent Spending Hike

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.25.2012 8:49 PM

Politics

How Much Does Your Job Suck?

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.11.2012 11:15 AM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh Talks Islamism, Obamacare and Stagflation on PJTV

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.9.2012 5:16 PM

Policy

Unemployment Rate Drops, But Fewer People are Working

J.D. Tuccille | 4.6.2012 11:14 AM

Politics

Recovering America: Earning Less, Spending More, $6.7 Trillion Poorer

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.31.2012 12:42 PM

Politics

Obama Is a Lock

The American public loves recession, war, tyranny.

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.8.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Lady Trouble, Wal-Mart's Anschluss, and the Gassing of the Economy: Tim Cavanaugh on PJTV

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.1.2012 4:17 PM

Politics

Minnesota Lawmakers: Kill Regulations, Create Jobs

Nick Sibilla | 2.15.2012 5:09 PM

Politics

Navy Rescues Iranians; Jobs Data Dispute; Ron Paul, Freemason? PM Links

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.6.2012 7:52 PM

Politics

Ron Paul Fires Most of DC Press Gaggle; Strong Job Numbers; Chevy Volt Recall, SAG Scandal and More: PM Links

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.5.2012 3:18 PM

Politics

The Last Economic Recovery Sightings of 2011

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.1.2012 6:36 PM

Politics

Economic Green Shoots; Punk Rock Raid; Syria at War, and Stingy States: Reason Evening Links

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.15.2011 6:44 PM

Politics

Unemployment Benefits: Not So Beneficial After All

Seth McKelvey | 11.30.2011 2:34 PM

Politics

Why Does Obama Need Turbo Tim?

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.15.2011 10:52 PM

Policy

2-4-6-8, Who Do We Appreciate! Dropouts! Dropouts! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay DROPOUTS!

Matt Welch | 10.24.2011 10:56 AM

Policy

Big Government, Meet Big Baby

Seth McKelvey | 10.20.2011 12:58 PM

Politics

This Is What a Weatherized Economy Looks Like

Matt Welch | 10.18.2011 10:05 AM

Politics

Yankee, Go South: More New England Unemployment Theories

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.9.2011 5:19 PM

Politics

High Minimum Wage and High Unemployment: Perfect Together

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.5.2011 7:56 PM

Politics

American Jobs Act Features Sop to Unemployees

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.30.2011 9:11 PM

Politics

Bernanke Fails Again

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.22.2011 9:13 PM

Policy

Nikki Haley Pledges Not to Let Reality Get in the Way of Drug Testing

Nick Gillespie | 9.20.2011 11:53 AM

Politics

They Gave a Recovery and Nobody Came

Some things even the Obama brain trust doesn't want credit for.

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.15.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Independents Hate Political Parties and Barack Obama's Policies

Matt Welch | 9.14.2011 4:09 PM

Politics

Obama's Ugly Record of Job Promises

Matt Welch | 9.9.2011 10:20 AM

Politics

Reason TV: Reactions to Obama's Jobs Speech 9/8/2011 or, "Two Girls One Job"

Paul Detrick and Sharif Matar | 9.9.2011 1:35 AM

Politics

Better-Late-Than-Never Obama Jobs Speech Open Thread

Matt Welch | 9.8.2011 7:11 PM

Politics

The Jobs Speech Obama Should Give

Solving unemployment requires stripping away unnecessary regulations, encouraging entrepreneurs, and restructuring the American economy.

Anthony Randazzo | 9.8.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Don't Know Much About a Science Book, So DO SOMETHING!!!!

Matt Welch | 9.6.2011 1:58 PM

Politics

Obama: Ban Discrimination Against Non-Workers

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.1.2011 4:59 PM

Politics

Unemployee All Stars

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.31.2011 10:10 PM

Politics

Reason Writers on Bloggingheads: Matt Welch Talks Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, Jobs, and The Declaration of Independents With Mark Schmitt

Matt Welch | 8.31.2011 6:41 PM

Policy

Reason In the Air: Tim Cavanaugh Talks Unemployees with WBAL's Ron Smith, 11:35 Eastern

Reason Staff | 8.31.2011 11:10 AM

Politics

Damn This Recession!

The rise of the unemployees

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.29.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Run For Your Life! He's Creating Jobs!

Matt Welch | 8.15.2011 7:39 AM