Tag: Unemployment

Short-term unemployment plumbed the lowest levels in a half-century in 2015

Short-term unemployment plumbed the lowest levels in a half-century in 2015

Joseph Lawler · January 8, 2016 3:46 pm

For months, U.S. employers have steadily added jobs even as global growth has flagged and financial markets have sunk. The jobs report for December on Friday may provide some hints of whether that trend can endure. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Economy adds 292,000 jobs in December, unemployment ends year at 5 percent

Joseph Lawler · January 8, 2016 1:31 pm

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 5,000 to land at 267,000 for the week that ended Dec. 19, the Labor Department said. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Jobless claims fall to 277,000 after steep rise to end 2015

Joseph Lawler · January 7, 2016 1:30 pm

According to the Food Research Action Center, SNAP participation averaged 45.5 million people in September 2015, a decrease of almost 1.1 million compared with September 2014. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Up to 1 million may lose food stamp benefits in 2016

Kelly Cohen · January 6, 2016 10:08 pm

Study: Federal minimum wage hike killed jobs during recession

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Study: Federal minimum wage hike killed jobs during recession

Jason Russell · January 4, 2016 3:52 pm

(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Jobless claims jump to 287,000, highest since July

Joseph Lawler · December 31, 2015 1:32 pm

The biggest increase of people leaving the labor force came among people who retired. That is partly because of the aging U.S. population, with more baby boomers reaching retirement age in recent years. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Where people leaving the labor force are going

Joseph Lawler · December 30, 2015 10:05 pm

The Labor Department sees the decline in workforce participation among prime working age adults, those between ages 25 and 54, halting over the next decade, with an uptick in the group aged 50 to 54. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Labor force participation will drop to Nixon era rates

Joseph Lawler · December 29, 2015 8:55 pm

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 5,000 to land at 267,000 for the week that ended Dec. 19, the Labor Department said. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Jobless claims fall to lowest level since 1970s

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 24, 2015 3:38 pm

Fifty-eight percent of the cities surveyed reported an increase in the total number of homeless persons. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Report: Hunger, homelessness on the rise in major U.S. cities

Kelly Cohen · December 22, 2015 7:34 pm

new applications for unemployment benefits fell by 11,000 to 271,000 in the second week of December, the Department of Labor reported Thursday. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Jobless claims fall to 271,000

Joseph Lawler · December 17, 2015 1:32 pm

Applications for unemployment benefits rose by 13,000 to 282,000 in the first week of December, the Labor Department reported Thursday. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Jobless claims rise to 282,000, highest since July

Joseph Lawler · December 10, 2015 1:32 pm