U.S. Department of Labor Blog

Every year, the National Women’s History Project selects a unifying theme to be shared with all who want to promote women’s history.

Lee este artículo en español. There’s an old, abandoned state mental hospital called the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in Dover, New York, about one and a half hours north of New York City. Everyone who lives in the area knows the stories about it being haunted.

Health care jobs have a bright outlook. In fact, about 1 in every 4 new jobs added to the economy between 2014 and 2024 will be in health care fields, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics projections. What’s behind this wave of growth?

Lee este artículo en español. It might sound strange, but Edwin Sostre will tell you that losing his job led him to his professional passion and purpose.

Lee este artículo en español. When new management took over at the Benton Harbor, Michigan, pancake house where she had been serving for several years, Erica Campbell knew some of the company’s wage practices were simply not right. The restaurant began requiring servers to pay the employer $2 per hour from their tips, but didn’t have a tip pooling arrangement in place.

In honor of the Labor Department’s 103rd birthday on March 4, here are some facts we bet you didn’t know.

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Deputy Labor Secretary Chris Lu (top row, fourth from left) visits the Dannon Project in February 2016.

Lee este artículo en español. Jesus Mondragon’s 16 years working as a courier for San Leandro, California-based National Consolidated Couriers Inc.