U.S. Department of Labor Blog

How Job Corps equipped DeAngelo Dee to explore the opportunities ahead.   

Why does BLS collect so much information, and who uses it?

As spring kicks off, we remind farms and other agricultural employers that we’re here to help.

What can the cost of our favorite treats tell us about inflation?

Why Rondell describes his apprenticeship as “an opportunity for me to ground myself in a career that one day my daughter would be proud of.”

Funded by the Labor Department, HVRP provides services to help homeless veterans reenter the workforce, which in turn gets them back on track in other aspects of life.

A masonry apprenticeship boosts a former National Guardsman toward a brighter future. 

By helping ensure that goods from our trade partners are not made with child labor, forced labor, or in exploitative conditions, we are giving U.S. workers and businesses a fair chance to compete.

Unlike other BLS surveys that track employment, wages and prices, the American Time Use Survey tracks a less conventional, but equally important, economic resource that we never have enough of: time.

A Job Corps program gave this Indiana high school drop-out a valuable second chance.