Unemployment 2023

Each month the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Vermont Department of Labor report four key statistics about the labor force, which are based on household surveys:

• Labor force: people employed and unemployed.
• Employed: payroll workers, farmworkers, and the self-employed.
• Unemployed: people not employed who have actively looked for work in the previous four weeks.
• Unemployment rate: number of people employed as a percentage of the labor force.