In the week ending August 2nd, initial jobless claims were at a seasonally adjusted level of 226,000. This represents an increase of 7,000 from the previous week's figure. The latest reading was ...

The five charts below delineate risks to the labor market, but also illustrate her positive point. The U.S. added 42,000 jobs ...

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New federal labor data shows U.S. workers filed 263,000 claims for unemployment benefits last week, the highest level since October 2021 and another sign the job market is cooling. The Department of ...

The 43-day shutdown halted collection, processing and publishing of official economic data. Yet states kept collecting claims ...

More than five months after the coronavirus pandemic began throttling the economy, layoffs remain widespread, the U.S. government reported Thursday, the latest sign of the labor market’s painstakingly ...

Last week’s initial unemployment claims report indicated that first-time jobless benefit claims suddenly spiked to the highest level in years. As the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) September 11 press ...

The state Department of Labor is raising the maximum unemployment insurance benefit rate from $504 per week to $869 per week beginning next Monday, and benefit checks will reflect the change the ...

Unemployment jumped in San Antonio and Austin in August, with the monthly rates in both metro areas up by more than 10% from a month earlier. Data released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission ...