The US unemployment rate climbed to 4.3% in July, highlighting a marked slowdown in hiring and deepening broader economic anxieties. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the economy ...

Despite the anticipated bounce back in payrolls, the unemployment rate is likely to be unchanged or even rise this month. The number of people receiving benefits after an initial week of aid, a ...

The U.S. labor market continues to flex its muscle, as applications for jobless claims fell again last week and remain at healthy levels despite high interest rates and elevated inflation.

The unemployment rate spiked to 14.7 percent from 4.4 percent in March, according to the April jobs report, as thousands of businesses closed and laid off or furloughed workers they could no ...

A surge in immigration, which is partly blamed for the jump in the unemployment rate from a five-decade low of 3.4% in April 2023, now means the economy needs to create between 145,000 and 200,000 ...

The U.S. unemployment rate’s long and deep decline may have come to an end U.S. jobless rate has risen to 4% from 3.7% despite strong hiring Published: Feb. 7, 2019 at 2:35 p.m. ET ...

US unemployment rate falls to five-decade low of 3.5% By . Alexandra Steigrad. ... so a fresh decline pushes out the timeline for any potential recession into late 2020 at the earliest ...

“But even by the end of next year, I think we are still going to be looking at something like a 6 percent unemployment rate,” she said. “A lot of people are not going to get their jobs back.” ...

The Georgia Department of Labor recently reported the state’s unemployment rate hit 3.5% in May, its lowest point in a year. But something else dropped, too: the size of the labor force. Georgia’s ...