In a 2022 enforcement action, the Federal Trade Commission said Credit Karma had amassed more than 2,500 data points on each consumer, including credit and income information, and used that information to send targeted advertisements and re
Pew Research Center reported that among parents living with an adult child in a multigenerational household, 63% said they paid more than half of the rent or mortgage, including 51% who said they paid all of it.
Under the Current Population Survey, a person generally must have no job, be available for work, and have made a specific active effort to find work within the previous four weeks to be classified as unemployed. A person can want a job and
BLS publishes two different monthly employment measures. The payroll survey estimates nonfarm payroll jobs; the household survey estimates employed people. They use different samples, definitions, and coverage, so they can move differently
For multiple jobholders, BLS Current Population Survey usual-weekly-earnings data reflect earnings at the person’s main job, not combined earnings from every job.
Not necessarily. BLS labor compensation includes wages, benefits, employer social-insurance contributions, and other payments. Unit labor costs compare labor compensation with output.
BROADSIDE DEFINITION: Narrative seeding is the intentional introduction of a phrase, frame, or interpretation into public or social discussion so that it can shape how later events are understood. Repetition, emotional resonance, and distri
Among long-tenured workers displaced during 2023–2025 who were reemployed full time by January 2026, 49.6% were earning less per week than they had earned on the job they lost. BLS defines long-tenured displaced workers here as people who h
In January 2024, the median tenure of U.S. wage-and-salary workers ages 55–64 with their current employer was 9.6 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In July 2023, 11.5% of workers age 55 and older were independent contractors on their sole or main job, compared with 6.9% of workers ages 25 to 54.
