Unemployment rates marginally up in all 14 Illinois metropolitan areas, per latest government data

Unemployment rates have slightly increased across all 14 metropolitan ... news release. The Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights metropolitan area saw an increase of 1,400 nonfarm jobs. Read More

Most Central IL metro areas seeing more jobs: Feb. 2023 vs. 2024

(WCIA) – Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Illinois Department of Employment Security released February data that indicates a rise in nonfarm jobs in several metropolitan areas ... Read More

Jobs up in Illinois for January, but unemployment up for Peoria

(WMBD)– Job numbers for Central Illinois are up ... news release. Nonfarm jobs increased in eight metro areas while decreasing in five. However, the unemployment rate increased in all 14 metro ... Read More

Jobs Report

indicating a healthy jobs market even with the unemployment rate ticking up slightly to 3.9%. U.S. employers added 275,000 jobs in February, backing up the robust economy touted by President Joe ... Read More

Current Unemployment Rate and Other Jobs Report Findings

Many or all of the products featured ... the Department of Labor. The unemployment rate declined to 3.8% in March from 3.9% in February, according to the jobs report released on April 5 by the ... Read More

Jobs Report Shows Low Unemployment But Also Signals A Possible Recession

I am an economics professor focusing on retirement security and jobs. Friday’s strong jobs report was a surprise. The unemployment ... to March’s rate of 14.2% and way down from a high of ... Read More

April Jobs Report Tops Expectations: What the Experts Are Saying

The April jobs report topped economists' expectations by a wide margin and the unemployment rate ticked down to remain ... At the most recent Fed meeting, which wrapped up on May 3, Chair Jerome ... Read More

Unemployment rate hits six-month high as economic uncertainty stalls job market

Employment rates dipped while unemployment reached a six-month high, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics ... Read More

March jobs-report forecast: 200,000 new jobs and a 3.8% unemployment rate

The U.S. economy keeps chugging along and producing lots of new jobs. Wall Street expects another sizable gain in March, if somewhat smaller than in ... Read More

August Jobs Report: Unemployment Falls to 8.1 Percent

7, 2012— -- American employers added just 96,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department reported Friday. The unemployment rate ... was the news today that 400,000 people gave up looking for ... Read More

Most Central IL metro areas seeing more jobs: Feb. 2023 vs. 2024

They found that nonfarm jobs went up in 11 metropolitan areas and decreased in three since Feb. 2023. The data also says the unemployment rate increased in all 14 metropolitan areas. Illinois ... Read More