Massachusetts residents can now receive up to 30 weeks of unemployment benefits, and it is because of Springfield’s climbing unemployment rate.

Business leaders are calling for reforms to the state's unemployment insurance system after an increase in joblessness in key labor markets triggered an extension of weekly benefits for ...

New federal data show the Springfield area hit an unemployment rate of 5.2%. The Barnstable area trails closest to ...

Massachusetts is boosting the maximum period for collecting jobless benefits to 30 weeks, a move required by law that will ...

An extension of jobless benefits is triggered under state law when the unemployment rate in any of the commonwealth's seven metropolitan statistical areas exceeds a 5.1% threshold.