The relationship between unemployment and suicide is well established. But is the persistence of long-term unemployment an added factor in the rising suicide rate these days, especially for older ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the unemployment rate remains near a 50-year low, another measure of worker well-being indicates there may be bigger cracks ...

The amount of time people spend looking for work is on the rise. Long-term unemployment is when someone is jobless and actively looking for work for 27 weeks — about six months — or more. Not ...

Mark, 22 and unemployed, sleeps late in the morning. His roommate has to get up for work, but Mark has nowhere to be. He rolls out of bed at 11 a.m. He checks his email — still no response to his last ...