Tag: Unemployment

The number of payroll jobs increased by 217,000 to hit a record high of 138.5 million, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

Six years later, U.S. finally regains jobs lost in crisis

Joseph Lawler · June 6, 2014 3:23 pm

Vice President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building April 29, 2014 in Washington. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Joe Biden: ‘Visionary-In-Chief’

Sean Higgins · June 5, 2014 8:02 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014 file photo, recruiter Valera Kulow, left, speaks with job seeker Leonardo Vitiello during a career fair in Dallas. The Labor Department reports the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week on Thursday, June 5, 2014. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Applications up slightly for US jobless aid

Josh Boak · June 5, 2014 12:46 pm

The week ahead in economics: The European Central Bank’s experiment

Joseph Lawler · June 2, 2014 1:15 pm

President Obama got some chilling news from a USA Today/Pew poll this week

Zogby Report Card: Obama stuck at 44% approval, despite big events

Paul Bedard · May 31, 2014 12:44 pm

"A staggering 1 in 8 such men are not in the labor force at all, meaning they are neither working nor looking for work," a Senate Budget Committee Republicans report said.

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Record number of working-age men are not working

Joel Gehrke · May 30, 2014 2:53 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, file photo, Applicants listen to a speaker's bull horn instructions for attending a combined Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Harlem Week job and career fair at Columbia University in New York. The Labor Department reports the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week later Thursday May 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Applications for US jobless aid near 7-year low

Christopher Rugaber · May 29, 2014 1:32 pm

The Labor Department's jobs report disappointed for a second consecutive month Friday, bringing the news that the U.S. created just 113,000 jobs in January, as the unemployment rate fell to 6.6 percent.

Understanding the ‘true’ unemployment rate

Joseph Lawler · May 23, 2014 12:27 pm

HP to cut 11,000 to 16,000 more jobs

Ryan Nakashima · May 22, 2014 11:03 pm

In this May 16, 2014 photo, Mike Zulauf, 2008 graduate of the Air Force Academy, shakes hands with Sandra Modena, Sales Manager at Trillium Staffing, at the annual veterans job fair aboard the LST in downtown Muskegon Mich. The Labor Department reports the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week on Thursday, May 22, 2014. (AP Photo/The Muskegon Chronicle, Madelyn Hastings)

US unemployment aid applications rise to 326,000

Christopher Rugaber · May 22, 2014 2:06 pm

Poll: 47% of Unemployed Have ‘Completely Given Up’ Looking for a Job

Mark Hemingway · May 21, 2014 1:00 pm

The Health Insurance Tax is buried in Obamacare's 2,700 pages, but the National Federation of Independent Business' Dan Danner says the measure's impact will be felt all over the country. (Thinkstock)

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Obamacare’s ‘HIT’ on small business will hike health insurance costs, reduce employment

Mark Tapscott · May 19, 2014 4:00 am