America Counts: Stories about Employment

Census Bureau’s Innovative LEHD Program on Local Workforce Dynamics Turns 20

The LEHD program began as a small startup. It grew into regularly published national statistics on worker and job flows at no cost to state partners.

New Census Bureau Tool Illustrates Job-to-Job Flows

Local data on hiring shows how construction firms are growing their workforce.

Can Census Bureau Data Drive Business Growth and Job Creation?

Knowing who your customers and competitors are can make or break a business. Census Bureau data can help.

About 13M U.S. Workers Have More Than One Job

More than 8% of workers have multiple jobs and the majority of them hold two jobs for the entire year. Women are more likely than men to have multiple jobs.

America Keeps on Truckin’

More than 3.5 million people are truck drivers, an all-time high. Driving trucks is one of the largest occupations in the nation.

Do People With Disabilities Earn Equal Pay?

Sometimes the big picture can mask key details. Overall, people with a disability earn less, but in most occupations they earn about as much as workers without.

Three-fourths of the Nation’s Businesses Don’t Have Paid Employees

In 2016, only 23.8 percent of the 32.6 million U.S. establishments had employees on their payroll.

Hiring for 2020 Census Tough When Unemployment is Low

Hiring hundreds of thousands of temporary workers for the 2020 Census could be challenging. Unemployment is about 6 points lower than before the 2010 Census.