Authorities say a text message scam is targeting Ohioans who receive unemployment benefits.
Mara Proctor used to design limestone hearths and columns for luxury homes near Kansas City, drawing on her college education and six years of training.
The taxes that Alabama businesses pay for unemployment benefits are going up Jan. 1.
Within the vast pool of 15.4 million unemployed workers, a split is emerging: The number of long-term jobless — those out of work six months or longer — is growing, while the number of short-term unemployed is declining.
Unemployment worsened or stayed the same in most metro areas in October, the Labor Department said Wednesday, as jobs remained scarce nationwide.
Virginia's unemployment figures dropped to the lowest rate in 2009 during October and remained below the national average, according to numbers released by the Virginia Employment Commission on Wednesday.
State officials say problems persist with Pennsylvania's online unemployment compensation filing system.
When President Barack Obama sits down with business leaders Thursday to talk about the ailing job market, the question he’ll ask is simple: How much more can — or should — the government do to get companies to start hiring again?
Unemployment rates have edged lower in 14 of Michigan's 17 major labor markets.
OAKLAND, Calif. - In nearly two decades working at the NUMMI auto plant, Lynn Chess has been able to buy a house, fund her children’s college education and even afford luxuries such as a 2008 cruise she took with family and friends.
California has received $60 million from the federal stimulus package to upgrade its 23-year-old unemployment benefits system even though previous federal funding to improve the same system has not been fully spent.
OAKLAND, Calif. - The recession has compounded a decades-long problem for black workers, who began the downturn facing a far higher jobless rate than the general population and have fared worse since.
The jobless rate rose in most Illinois metropolitan areas in October.
Louisiana lost 1,900 nonfarm jobs in October and 44,000 over the last year, with big hits in manufacturing and in the trade, transportation, and utilities sector, the state Workforce Commission reported.
The recent move by Congress to extend unemployment benefits drew a heavy response from bewildered readers who have been hearing conflicting stories about who is eligible and who isn’t.
Just two years after hitting a record low, the unemployment rate in Alabama climbed to 10.9 percent in October, the highest it has been in more than 25 years, state officials announced Friday.
In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment.
The unemployment rate in Rhode Island has fallen for the first time in nearly three years, dropping slightly to 12.9 percent in October.
A shrinking labor force and about 1,000 new jobs have helped put Colorado's latest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October at 6.9 percent, a slight decrease from the previous month, the state Department of Labor and Employment said Friday.
Florida's unemployment rate continued its steady upward climb in October to 11.2 percent — a mark last seen in the 1970s and a tenth of a percentage point higher than September's adjusted rate, state officials said Friday.
Indiana's unemployment rate was almost unchanged from September to October, but officials said it's too early to tell whether the stability marks a long-awaited awaited rebound in employment.
Nebraska's unemployment rate held steady at 4.9 percent in October even as the national rate crept up to 10.2 percent.
Ohio's unemployment rate has gone up for the first time in three months, to 10.5 percent in October from 10.1 percent in September.
North Carolina's unemployment rate rose slightly to 11 percent in October, a fraction off its historic peak earlier this year and the ninth straight month in double digits, the state's Employment Security Commission reported Friday.
The unemployment rate in South Carolina rose nearly half a percentage point in October, returning to a record level of 12.1 percent set earlier this year, the state agency that calculates the rate said Friday.
What gives our Great Recession its particular darkness — and gives this film its haunting afterlife — is the disconnect between the corporate culture that is dictating the firing and the rest of us.
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.
Washington, DC – Today the National Employment Law Project (NELP) released a new analysis finding that one million workers will become ineligible for unemployment benefits in January 2010 unless Congress reauthorizes the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's unemployment i …
TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - Some unemployed workers are finding they don't qualify for the extension of benefits passed by President Obama last month because of strict deadlines in the bill.
Images of ivory towers. Of men and women fattened off the wealth of our labor, lackadaisical. They wake from their slumber and address the masses with promises of splendor and ease and then rumble back to their lavish suites uninspired to act with any sense of urgency.
There are about 12 million unemployed in the United States and there are about 15 to 20 million illegal immigrants in the US. At least half of the illegal immigrants are working.
It's not just that jobs are gone. It's that few good jobs are left. Few jobs that offer something they call "job security." People know this reality. Wall street doesn't care about it much, but it should. Confidence is related to certainty. More over the river.
Another comforting set of employment figures out this morning from the Australian Bureau of Statistics for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan.
Each year the Business & Media Institute looks back on the year's news and selects the top 10 worst economic myths. Here is our 2009 list: 10. CBS, NY Times Support Ecuadorian Shakedown of U.S. oil company 9. Media Fail to Scrutinize Obama's Job Claims 8.
When you are surrounded by people being fired how does this affect you. Obviously it can be really stressful but in todays economy I still think it is better to have a stressful job then no job at all.
The independent panel that oversees the government's financial bailout program concluded in a year-end review that, despite flaws and lingering problems, the program "can be credited with stopping an economic panic." More Articles
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) , heralded as welfare reform during the Clinton administration, comes up before Congress next year for reauthorization.
The U.S. jobless rate dropped 0.2 percentage points to 10% in November, the first decline in three months, but the government's broader measure of unemployment tumbled even more, falling 0.3 point to 17.2%.
Hard working Americans are hardly working as the middle class continues to disintegrate. Quoth Daffy Duck: "And brother, when it disintegrates-it disintegrates!"
In 2006, Ini Augustine was given a Congressional Medal of Distinction and named a businesswoman of the year by the National Republican Congressional Committee for building a highly profitable temp agency. But Jim Spencer reports for the Minneapolis-St.
President Obama plans to endorse a handful of jobs-creation measures Tuesday morning that would target small businesses with tax credits to encourage hiring and unused Wall Street bailout dollars to increase lending.
Unemployment is at 10 percent, near the postwar high of 1983. Fifteen million Americans are out of work. Ten million more have given up looking or are working fewer hours than they would like. We have been losing jobs every month for two years.
Mara Proctor used to design limestone hearths and columns for luxury homes near Kansas City, drawing on her college education and six years of training. These days, she's leading customers around a store that sells sculptured snowmen and Santa figurines.
State labor officials and worker advocates on Monday appealed for quick Congressional action to extend emergency unemployment benefits and to renew health insurance subsidies for the long-term jobless.
tional unemployment should peak at 10.4 percent and quickly fall to 8 percent by the end of 2010.
aul Krugman posted a very short blurb in his blog on Friday, entitled: "Good news is bad news." It was about how even a small bit of good news (in this instance, a monthly drop of two-tenths of a percent in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' U.3 Unemployment Index) about how our nat …
The US labor market witnessed a dramatic improvement in November as the number of jobs lost narrowed to 11,000 and the unemployment rate dipped to 10.0 percent, official data showed Friday.
I think this is a great tool for helping us understand the unemployment numbers.
This is going to be short and sweet. I owe my buddy Mandalman an apology. It's going to be slightly off handed, but an apology just the same.
Why is it that every single year, retailers are putting out the Christmas decorations earlier and earlier?