Tag: Unemployment

New applications for unemployment benefits fell to 223,000 for the week, well below investors' expectations for 245,000. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Jobless claims plunge to lowest level since 1973

Joseph Lawler · March 2, 2017 1:35 pm

To Get High Growth, America Must Overcome Its Potential Labor Problem

Irwin M. Stelzer · February 25, 2017 11:00 am

Private-sector forecasters had anticipated that jobless claims would gently rise from an ultra-low 239,000 the week before to 244,000. (Patti Blake/News Herald via AP)

Jobless claims rise to 244,000, running at lowest in four decades

Joseph Lawler · February 23, 2017 1:32 pm

Forecasters had expected claims to rebound after hitting an ultra-low 234,000 in the first week of February. (Patti Blake/News Herald via AP)

Jobless claims hover at ultra-low 239,000

Joseph Lawler · February 16, 2017 1:31 pm

The resolution disapproves of the rule and compels the Labor Department to write another one. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

House votes to scrap Obama limits on drug tests for the unemployed

Daniel Chaitin · February 15, 2017 10:12 pm

Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban on Tuesday predicted the U.S. will see greater change in the jobs market and economy over the next three years than it has the last three decades. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Mark Cuban makes major jobs prediction for next 3 years

Anna Giaritelli · February 15, 2017 2:53 am

‘Bring your rump’ to Chicago, Bobby Rush tells Trump

‘Bring your rump’ to Chicago, Bobby Rush tells Trump

Anna Giaritelli · February 11, 2017 4:36 am

Trump talks up economic issues after difficult third week

Trump talks up economic issues after difficult third week

Anna Giaritelli · February 11, 2017 1:16 am

On Thursday, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits in the previous week. Economists in the private sector had expected jobless claims to tick up to a still-low 250,000. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Jobless claims running at 44-year low

Joseph Lawler · February 9, 2017 1:31 pm

Trump responds to refugee ban critics: The ‘citizens of this country are my total priority’

Trump responds to refugee ban critics: The ‘citizens of this country are my total priority’

Anna Giaritelli · February 3, 2017 11:00 pm

Grain storage bins on a rural highway in Ottumwa, Iowa. Ottumwa has about 1,000 unemployed people — those seeking work, but out of a job. That's an unemployment rate of about 8.5 percent, nearly double the national average. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Will refugees displace native workers?

Timothy P. Carney · February 3, 2017 3:18 pm

Job creation in January proved stronger than expected. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

First jobs report of Trump era: 227,000 new jobs, unemployment 4.8 percent

Joseph Lawler · February 3, 2017 1:31 pm