New York will spend upwards of $6 billion to pay off debt to the federal government that it took on during the Covid-19 pandemic to pay for unemployment benefits, Gov. Kathy Hochul said this week.

Louisiana could require residents who get unemployment insurance to do more to find new jobs if a bill advancing in the legislature becomes law. House Bill 153, which passed the state House by a ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve's mandate was shaped in the 1970s, when the country suffered from high inflation and unemployment. The Federal Reserve Act of 1977 modified the original act that ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in California dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs ...

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The unemployment rate stayed at 4.2 percent, in line with expectations. US financial markets closed sharply higher on the news, with all three major Wall Street indices ending the day firmly in ...

The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.2%, the Labor Department reported Friday. Trump’s aggressive and unpredictable policies – including massive import taxes – have clouded the outlook ...

WASHINGTON — The national March 2025 not seasonally adjusted construction unemployment rate was 5.4%, unchanged from March 2024, according to a state-by-state analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor ...

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Prior to that, I was station commander in Khayelitsha—an area grappling with severe unemployment and deep social challenges. These experiences sparked a lifelong interest in crime prevention and, ...

New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the unemployment rate fell to 4.1% in April from a revised rate of 4.4% a month earlier. The CSO said that on an annual basis, the ...