Jobs News Americans Running Out Of Unemployment Benefits And Part Time Jobs At Record Levels Point To A Recession Coming, Economist Says

More Americans Are Stuck With the Jobs They Can Get, Not the Ones They Want

The faltering U.S. labor market is pushing more Americans into part-time work and other roles they don’t want, and that don’t always pay the bills. The official unemployment rate in the U.S. remains ... Read More

Unemployment up as employers added just 22,000 jobs last month

The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3% last month, worse than expected and the highest level since 2021. President Trump, who fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a disappointing ... Read More

Jobless claims reach highest level since 2021, a sign layoffs are rising

New federal labor data shows U.S. workers filed 263,000 claims for unemployment benefits last week, the highest level since October 2021 and another sign the job market is cooling. The Department of ... Read More

Job growth stalls: US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August and unemployment rose to highest level since 2021

The US job market is stalling out. Job growth slowed to a crawl in August, and the unemployment rate rose to its highest level in nearly four years, indicating the US labor market is growing stagnant. Read More

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

Federal layoffs and an end to diversity initiatives have weakened a historically strong labor market for Black workers. Read More

What the latest jobs report means for you … buckle up

After years of plentiful employment opportunities, healthy pay bumps and pandemic savings-fueled spending sprees, American workers now face a sobering economic reality: It’s getting harder and harder ... Read More

Americans have record-high pessimism toward finding jobs as labor figures lower than expected

Workers’ confidence in their ability to move jobs has hit its lowest point in over a decade, according to a New York Federal Reserve survey released on Monday. Respondents indicated a perceived 44.9% ... Read More

US weekly jobless claims reverse prior surge, labor market still softening

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, reversing the prior week's jump, but the labor market has softened as both the ... Read More

The next cliff: Millions of jobless Americans risk losing aid

Millions of Americans will see their unemployment benefits disappear at the end of the year unless Congress extends pandemic-related programs that made the aid available to a wider swath of the ... Read More