Unemployment falls to 7.5%; job creation solid in April The job market plugged along steadily, and unemployment fell in April, according to new data out Friday, suggesting that the U.S. economy is still expanding. The nation added 165,000 jobs in April as the unemployment rate fell to 7.5 percent, from 7.6 percent in March, the Labor Department said on Friday. More
U.S. Jobless Claims Fall to 5-Year Low The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell to the lowest level in more than five years, a positive signal for the labor market ahead of Friday's April jobs report. More
Jobless claims fall, labor market recovery advances The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, offering reassurance that the bottom is not falling out of the labor market despite signs of slower growth. More
Jobless claims show labor market steady as it goes The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week, which could further allay fears of a major setback in the labor market recovery. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted 352,000 the Labor Department said on Thursday. More
US unemployment aid applications plummet to 346K The number of Americans seeking U.S. unemployment benefits fell sharply last week to a seasonally adjusted 346,000, suggesting March's weak month of hiring may be a temporary slowdown. More
Why Windsor-Essex, Ont., still has Canada's highest jobless rate as population approaches 500,000 The population in Windsor-Essex was estimated at a shade over 468,000 in 2023, and while more people are said to be working in the area than ever before, the unemployment rate sits at 8.7%, the ... 12/15/2024 - 9:32 pm | View Link
Jobless Claims Hit 2-Month High While the job market has shown some cracks recently, employment remains broadly healthy and has held up better than many predicted. 12/12/2024 - 3:37 am | View Link
US applications for jobless benefits rise to highest level in 2 months but remain relatively low Jobless claim applications climbed by 17,000 to 242,000 for the week of Dec. 7, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s significantly more than the 220,000 analysts were forecasting and ... 12/12/2024 - 1:09 am | View Link
Jobless claims jump to two-month high in a cautionary sign, but holidays may be to blame Initial jobless claims rose by 17,000 to 242,000 in the week that ended Dec. 7, the Labor Department said Thursday. That’s the highest level since mid-October. 12/12/2024 - 1:08 am | View Link
US applications for jobless benefits jump to highest level in 2 months but remain low US applications for jobless benefits jump to highest level in 2 months but remain low. 12/12/2024 - 1:05 am | View Link
Americans are finding it harder to get a new job | CNN Business The number of Americans receiving jobless benefits for multiple weeks climbed to its highest level since November 2021, according to a Department of Labor report released Thursday. 12/14/2024 - 11:58 pm | View Website
Unemployment claims unexpectedly rise this week Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 17,000 to a seasonally adjusted 242,000 for the week ended Dec. 7, the Labor Department said on Thursday. 12/12/2024 - 4:44 pm | View Website
More Americans file for unemployment benefits last week, but layoffs ... During the first four months of 2024, applications for jobless benefits averaged just 213,000 a week before rising in May. They hit 250,000 in late July, supporting the notion that high interest rates were finally cooling a red-hot U.S. job market. 12/12/2024 - 9:13 am | View Website
Jobless Definition & Meaning The meaning of JOBLESS is having no job. How to use jobless in a sentence. 12/12/2024 - 9:13 am | View Website
US applications for jobless benefits rise to highest level in 2 months ... Weekly applications for jobless benefits are considered a proxy for U.S. layoffs. While the job markets has shown some cracks recently, it remains broadly healthy and has held up better than many experts predicted considering that interest rates have been elevated in recent years. The Federal Reserve instituted a flurry of rate increases in ... 12/12/2024 - 8:37 am | View Website
Frustration with healthcare, including pharmacy benefit managers (PMBs), continues to make news in the weeks following Brian Thompson’s death.
Shares in major healthcare companies fell yesterday after president-elect Donald Trump made comments that he wanted to “knock out” prescription drug industry middlemen. The fall makes this yet another week since the killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson that the business practices of companies that operate America’s private healthcare system have come under increased scrutiny.
New rules and innovations in California can serve as a template for all.
Homelessness has been a challenge in the United States since before it was a country, as the early colonies struggled to address the “wandering poor.” Today, it is a full-on crisis. The Department of Housing and Urban Development reports that in 2023, more than 650,000 people in the U.
The maker of flash drives and memory cards, gave itself a (dare we say . . . cool) rebrand ahead of its planned spin off next year.
Sandisk Corporation, the maker of flash drives and memory cards, debuted a new logo today, and it’s based on a single pixel.
The storied publication created a quarantined space to experiment with future technologies.
More than 165 years ago, the literary greats of American writing—including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Melville—assembled to cosign a boisterous manifesto promising to lead the discourse on literature, art, and politics in an initiative that would become The Atlantic.
There’s a lot that the private sector can do.
In the wake of hurricanes striking across the Southeast this fall, nonprofit organizations played a vital role in delivering much needed aid to hard hit communities. Last month, nonprofits across the country took part in educating voter. They registered young people to vote, and encouraged broad participation in the democratic process.
The owner of two dilapidated buildings along East Colfax Avenue will go before Denver’s Landmark Preservation Commission for a second time Tuesday, citing financial hardship as the reason he should be allowed to demolish the 130-year-old structures.
Property owner Pando Holdings, developer Kiely Wilson’s firm, is appealing the commission’s rejection last summer of its demolition application, and the financial hardship pleading is one of the final avenues left to get permission to tear down the former mansions in the Wyman Historic District.
The historic designation of the buildings at 1600 and 1618 E.