Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson in 2019. - (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Robert J. Samuelson, who sought to ...

Let’s celebrate a quiet revolution: the return of “full employment.” In the 1960s and 1970s politicians and economists clamored for it, defining full employment as an unemployment rate of 4 percent.

IT’S A MARK OF OUR PROGRESS AGAINST INFLATION THAT the greatest need now is measuring it. Once in double digits, it’s so low that we’re not sure what it is. ADAM SMITH (1723-1790) IS A MAN FOR OUR ...

The discouraging March employment report, with a job gain of only 88,000, raises questions beyond the dreary state of today's labor market. Prolonged high joblessness may be silently shredding the ...