U.S. Employment and the Unemployment Rate, March 6

This lesson uses the latest employment and unemployment data release by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the month of February, 2015, reported March 6, 2015. The lesson focuses on different ways of measuring the demand for labor and how the demand for labor affects the average hourly wage rate, one of the measures used by the Federal Reserve to gauge the health of the labor market.