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Men Without Full-Time Jobs Are 33% More Likely to Divorce

By Belinda Luscombe
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Millennials Are Living With Parents at Record Rates

More women are living at home today than in 1940

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Jobless Rate Falls to Lowest Since the Recovery Began

Yet we are seeing no recovery in wage growth or labor force participation

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Be there in a productive way

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Unemployment Rate Drops

But the numbers from March are far worse than expected

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But you don't have to let it

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How Being Unemployed Changes Your Personality

The new results question how permanent personality really is

By Justin Worland

What Unemployed People Do With Their Time

While most of unemployed people spend a sizable part of their day job-hunting, plenty of others seem to, well, futz around

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Unemployment Drops to 5.6%

December marked the 11th straight month of payroll increases above 200,000

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Layoffs By U.S. Employers at 17-Year Low

Data are the latest indicator that the U.S. labor market is performing well

By John Kell / Fortune

Private Sector Adds More Than 2.5 Million Jobs in 2014

At the current pace of job growth the economy could return to full employment by this time next year

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Millennials Worse Off Than Parents

The latest Census numbers show Americans aged 18 to 34 struggling worse than their parents did in the '80s

By Josh Sanburn

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Many Young Americans Are Happy Not To Work

Analysis shows increase in the percentage of teenagers and twenty-somethings outside the labor force

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