Unemployment is running at more than 24% unemployment in Greece. It is above 20% in Spain, and in France and Italy it is well above 10%, and has been stuck at those levels for many years. Given those terrible numbers, you might think that the eurozone’s jobless crisis couldn’t be any more crushing. But unfortunately you’d be wrong. In fact it is even worse than most people realize. Why? Because the official statistics only capture people who are actively looking for work. There are millions more who would be working...

From the "they haven't already?" department.

If nobody is working in one out of every five U.S. families, then how in the world can the unemployment rate be close to 5 percent as the Obama administration keeps insisting? The truth, of course, is that the U.S. economy is in far worse condition than we are being told. Last week, I discussed the fact that the Federal Reserve has found that 47 percent of all Americans would not be able to come up with $400 for an unexpected visit to the emergency room without borrowing it or selling something.

Collecting cars is usually an expensive hobby, but in Nirenstein’s case, it pays for itself. On 20 March of this year, Vehicle Virgins neared a milestone when it generated $996.25 in a single day.

Hey, congrats! You’ve been offered a promotion. Instead of working like you have been — off in your own little bubble, setting your own goals, with no direct reports — your new role will give you much greater influence throughout the company. You’ll be supervising a team, helping to motivate and direct them toward goals set by upper management. There is, however, a teensy catch: Your new title doesn’t actually come with any more...

“"We value people who are learning machines and are highly adaptable over people who only bring experience" @dcancel https://t.co/ddvtaMj8ao”

For many California business groups, the state's decision to gradually raise its minimum wage to $15 by 2022 is a terrible thing. But for its technology industry, it may be a plus. Higher wages, says the California Restaurant Association, will force businesses to face "undesirable" options, including cutting staff, raising prices and adopting automation.

A writer considers an alternate life as an undercover agent. By Jennifer duBois.

Emily Dunham shares her technique for leveraging open source contributions to stand out as a great job candidate.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron promised back in 2010 to bring net migration down to 100,000 people a year. Six years later, it's more than three times that number. That's one reason the government's Home Office decided that non-Europeans on skilled worker visas — known as Tier 2 visas — are not welcome to stay unless they are making at least 35,000 British pounds (about $50,000 a year).

BIG employers are going cold on university degrees, leaving students and jobseekers to wonder if their qualifications are worth the investment and extra study. This week, international publishing house Penguin Random House decided to drop degrees as a requirement for job applicants, following in the footsteps of major consulting firms Ernst and Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The move comes as smaller employers are shifting away from hiring...

“Jeff” is a technician and carpenter who has been installing art in galleries and private residences for almost a decade. “Andy” is a sound and lighting expert who freelances for galleries, artists and wealthy clients. “Damien” is veteran of the job who currently works as a preparator at a major uptown gallery.

The compensation of Canada's highest-paid CEOs dipped two per cent from 2013 to 2014, but each still raked in an average of $8.96 million, according to a new study.

Of the 10 largest occupations in the United States, only one — registered nurse — makes more than the national average when it comes to all U.S. jobs. Nurses make $69,790 annually while the average U.S. worker makes $47,230, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Call it Downton Abbey syndrome: The newest trend among the world' s ultra-rich—like, royalty-grade, private-plane-owning Scrooge McDuck rich—is to have a butler. But what type of person would willingly give over his life to serving the outrageously moneyed? As David Katz discovers, these are men and women with boundless grace, innate propriety, and the wherewithal to quickly hide six hookers on a mega-yacht.

Printing press operators in Washington, D.C. make more than double each year than their peers do nationwide. The same is true for judicial law clerks in New York, while tile and marble setters in Massachusetts make 70 percent more on average than people doing similar jobs elsewhere in the United States.

Machines have threatened human jobs for years, but in an odd evolutionary twist, death row prison guards in Indonesia now have to worry about crocodiles putting them out of work.

Britain's civil service and several major companies have agreed to recruit university graduates and apprentices without knowing the applicants' names in an effort to eliminate bias against people from ethnic minorities. Prime Minister David Cameron said in a major speech last month it was "disgraceful" that people with "white-sounding" names were twice as likely as others to be shortlisted for jobs.

Not the folks you want sneezing on the job. A survey conducted by the Center for Research and Public Policy for Alchemy Systems found that the majority of food industry workers continue to go to work when they’re sick, Tech Times reports. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median wage for food industry workers as of May 2014 was $19,560. For many of them, missing work could be too costly.

Drinking too much has well-known personal costs—headaches, nausea, and regrettable 4 a.m. text messages. The Centers for Disease Control has put a figure on how much it costs the American economy: $249 billion. That includes spending on health care as well as the economic toll of lost productivity, car crashes, crime, and deaths attributable to excessive alcohol consumption.