2 The monthly Current Population Survey, better known as the Household Survey, calculates the unemployment rate. The survey “includes self-employed workers whose businesses are unincorporated ...

The labor market exhibited some signs of weakness last month, according to the latest monthly jobs report released Friday morning, as the U.S. economy flashes mixed signals in the early stages of ...

But the unemployment rate inched up to 4.1% ... That’s the largest monthly total since July 2020, in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. The layoffs include more than 62,000 job ...