FRANKFURT — Record youth unemployment is emerging as the most urgent problem in the euro zone, if the political rhetoric of recent days is any measure. But leaders are struggling to come up with effective ways ... Read more
LONDON — A failure to tackle high youth unemployment could destroy democratic support for the European Union’s governments, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, said Thursday, in an ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The nation’s unemployment rate would probably be nearly a point lower, roughly 6.5 percent, and economic growth almost two points higher this year if Washington had not cut spending and ... Read more
IT’S a ho-hum economy, at best. Four years after the end of the Great Recession, gross domestic product appears to be growing at a lackluster pace, labor productivity is lagging and, despite a slight ... Read more
THE idle young European, stranded without work by the Continent’s dysfunction, is one of the global economy’s stock characters. Yet it might be time to add another, even more common protagonist: the ... Read more
Michael Kelly let go of another employee last month. As chief executive of a small Michigan military contractor, Nanocerox, he had already cut his work force by one-third. But it was not enough. ... Read more
CAIRO — The Egyptian government’s failure to revive the country’s ailing economy is likely to be a defining issue in parliamentary elections expected to begin in October. The umbrella ... Read more
PARIS — The euro zone jobless rate rose to a record 12.1 percent in March, a sharp reminder that unemployment remains among the region’s biggest problems. The unemployment rate in the ... Read more
PARIS — The euro zone jobless rate rose to a record 12.1 percent in March, a sharp reminder that unemployment remains among the region’s biggest problems. The unemployment rate in the ... Read more
AMERICAN workers are being fired or laid off less often than at any time in the last decade, the government reported this week. But companies are also less willing to hire than they used to be. ... Read more