While the government is shut down, the BLS is no longer reporting unemployment data. However, alternatives exist that we can watch in the meantime. These alternatives are mixed but are overall ...

The U.S. labor market is weaker than headline unemployment data suggests, with rising involuntary part-time work masking underlying instability. Large companies continue to dominate hiring, while ...

Alabama is the top state with the largest decline in filings for unemployment claims. WalletHub created its rankings of states assessing changes in unemployment claims for specific weeks. Americans ...

Only California and Washington, D.C., have higher jobless rates as the New Jersey businesses continue to shed thousands of ...

The latest employment numbers have dropped—and the job market still looks tough for workers. Today’s jobs report shares data from November, which was delayed due to the government shutdown that lifted ...

As the unemployment rate ticks up both nationally and locally, some industry experts expressed concern while another noted it represents more of a return to “normal.” Nationally, the unemployment rate ...

Unemployment data released on Friday was not warmly greeted by millions of Americans. The overall unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3% in August, up from 4.2% in July. And just 22,000 jobs were added ...

To cut, or not to cut — that’s the billion-dollar question. In 2025, the Federal Reserve will be boxed into a corner by its dual mandate to encourage low inflation and low unemployment, two often ...

Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 50,000 in December, lower than the downwardly revised 56,000 in November and short of the Dow Jones estimate for 73,000. The unemployment rate fell to 4.4%, ...