The official U.S. unemployment rate is the number of unemployed people divided by the civilian labor force. To be classified as unemployed in the Current Population Survey, a person generally must have had no employment during the reference
In BLS employee-benefit statistics, “access” means a benefit plan is available for an employee to use. “Participation” means the employee is actually participating under the plan’s rules. A worker can therefore have access to a retirement p
Edward Bernays wrote in 1928 that creating or changing public opinion requires understanding human motives, identifying the interests and groups represented in a population, and understanding the channels used to reach the public, including
“Consumerism” has more than one established meaning. In psychology, one meaning is the purchase and consumption of goods and services beyond basic needs, often connected with conspicuous consumption and social status. The word can also mean
Research linking job-ad language with correspondence-study results found that employers using language associated with age stereotypes also showed stronger measured discrimination against older applicants in hiring.
BLS counted 642,000 long-tenured manufacturing workers displaced during 2023–2025, an increase of 215,000 from the prior survey period. Manufacturing accounted for 19% of all long-tenured displacement in the 2023–2025 window.
A review of research on how long it takes medical discoveries to reach patients found that “it is frequently stated that it takes an average of 17 years for research evidence to reach clinical practice.” Several separate studies, measuring
Women were excluded from early-phase drug trials from 1977 to 1993 and from major heart-disease studies beyond drug trials, including the Physicians’ Health Study and MRFIT.
Among U.S. households with children age 13 or younger, 23.9% paid for childcare in 2024. Those paying households spent an average of $10,520 annually, about 5.6% of household income.
