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Two articles: Jobless Claims Fall More Than Expected NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance fell last week, the government said Thursday, with a total figure that was below analysts' expectations.Orders for U.S.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Someone has put a lot of thought into a welcome sign that may surprise you, it's in front of a homeless camp off I-25 in Colorado Springs.
Lawmakers in both the House and Senate introduced bills this week to push the deadline to apply for unemployment benefits to as far back as 2011.
It is getting colder in Santa Cruz, CA and the homeless shelters only have 800 beds for over 2,200 homeless people in the county. Some of the homeless say they will tough it out.
Posted 07:29 PM ET Unemployment of 10.2% is still below the post-World War II peak of 10.8% of late 1982, but by other measures, the job situation is the worst since the Great Depression.
Johnny R. Williams, 30, would appear to be an unlikely person to have to fret about the impact of race on his job search, with companies like JPMorgan Chase and an M.B.A.
After engineering an unprecedented spending surge for nearly a year, President Barack Obama now wants to signal that he takes deficits seriously. So this week the White House announced that it is considering creating a commission to figure how to fix the budget mess. Eureka!
I think it is great that they are able to hire so many people. But I know for a fact the underlying reason the RV sales are up right now.
The debate over how effective the Obama administration's efforts have been at turning the economy around now seems to hinge on the question of whether saving a job is as good as creating one. The answer is clearly yes...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A growing number of states reported rising jobless rates in October, and thirteen states reported unemployment rates above the national average of 10.2%, according to a government report released on Friday.
The findings of the report, "Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Conflicted Issue," show that recent government data, some of which has not been examined before, indicates that immigrants have relatively high rates of criminality.
The Democratic chairman of the House Appropriations Committee is demanding greater accountability from the the Obama administration after gross inaccuracies were found on a government Web site that tracks jobs purportedly saved or created by the $787 billion stimulus plan.
An error in a stimulus job creation report, filed by the Belmont Metropolitan Housing Authority, was corrected but not before ABC News reported the inaccurate information.
"The U.S. unemployment rate climbed to 10.2% in October, topping the 10% mark for the first time in 26 years, the Labor Department reported Friday.
Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Robert S. Kaplan, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner who now teaches management at Harvard Business School, predicted that public anger at Wall Street will continue to grow as joblessness gets worse.
Claudia Hendershot spent nine years working for IBM, got laid off and made a career change into real estate appraising. Then real estate went bust.
The Wall Street financial collapse has stripped tens of millions of previously middle class Americans of their jobs, homes, and retirement assets and plunged them into poverty and despair.
In a new study by the institute, more than 53 percent of respondents listed unemployment and lack of jobs as the most important economic problem facing the country.
The agreement would give an additional 14 weeks of benefits to jobless workers in all 50 states. Workers in states with an unemployment rate at 8.5 percent or above would receive six weeks on top of that.
Eight months after enacting a massive economic stimulus package, the Obama administration is facing rising pressure from some congressional Democrats to move more aggressively to jump-start the moribund job market and try to spur a housing recovery.
Congressional Democrats and the Obama White House have plenty to fret about as they eye the 2010 elections: rising deficits, the Afghan war, public fears over expanding government, the fate of the health-care brawl.
Parents usually want their children to have a better life than they did.
House-passed bill to give another 13 weeks of unemployment benefits to people from states where the jobless rate is at least 8.5 percent has bogged down in the Senate because of resistance from lawmakers whose states have lower unemployment and would be left out.
The number of first-time claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly for the second straight week, a sign that jobs remain scarce even as other data show the economy is stabilizing.
Morgan, 63, loaded all of it into the truck before dawn one recent Saturday and left her home in Zanesville, Ohio.