The employment rate is a better reflection of the bleak future facing American workers than the unemployment rate, and a new report gives Americans little cause for hope.

Friday's labor report is the latest confirmation that our economy is sputtering, and a deeper look at the little-known civilian employment-population ratio, presents what may be a more revealing and troublesome picture.

Just when it looked like the job market was going to rebound, recent unemployment numbers revealed a disappointing reality.

The American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs.

AEI labor expert Aparna Mathur explains what to expect for upcoming jobs numbers.

President Barack Obama has been on a tour of college campuses touting proposals to lower student loan repayments for college graduates. He hopes to rekindle the enthusiasm of young voters, who in 2008 favored him over Sen. John McCain by more than two-to-one.

Ironically, these same young Americans...

Minimum wage laws do harm in the short run and in the long run. People acquire lots of valuable human capital in their first jobs. The longer those first jobs are pushed out of reach, the longer it takes low-skill workers to develop crucial capacities that can put them on a promising career path.

What's on the horizon for taxes? AEI's Aparna Mathur weighs in with the House Small Business Committee.