February 2026 Unemployment Data–the Full Count (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS) OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 4.4%* [ANALYSES by EXPERTS] White 3.7% African American 7.7% Hispanic 5.2% Asian¹ 4.8% Persons with a disability¹ 8.0% Men 20 years and over 4.0% Women 20 years and over 4.1% Teens (16-19… Read More Unemployment Data-FEBRUARY 2026
February 12, 2026 News Release from the office of Sen. Cory Booker WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and U.S. Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12) reintroduced the bicameral Federal Jobs Guarantee Development Act, legislation that would establish a model federal jobs guarantee program in up to 15 high-unemployment communities and regions across the United States. Thanks… Read More Booker, Watson Coleman Reintroduce Legislation to Establish a Pilot for a Federal Jobs Guarantee Program
By Frank Stricker Feburary 23, 2026 There was not much change from December in many of the January numbers in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Unemployment Situation for January, or in the National Jobs for All Network’s estimation of total real unemployment. Some groups experienced slight improvements. In the government report, the unemployment rate was… Read More A Little Better Now—But What about the Future? The January 2026 Jobs Report
Keeping Alive the Dream: The Seminar on Full Employment,Social Welfare, and Equity (#613), by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg and Sheila D. Collins, with Helen Lachs Ginsburg From: A Community of Scholars, edited by Thomas Vinciguerra, a book published as part of the 75th– anniversary celebration of the founding of the University Seminars. The book brings together essays… Read More Keeping Alive the Dream (2020)
Opinion: The Missing ‘For All’ Program? A New York City Jobs For All, by Alan Aja, Trudy Goldberg, and Cortney Sanders, City Limits, January 20, 2026. Civil Rights Without Economic Rights Are Incomplete, by Cortney Sanders, LinkedIn, January 19, 2026. Priced Out of the American Dream testimony from Professor Darrick Hamilton, from a U.S. House… Read More Recent Posts and Publications
