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Weekly jobless claims: Number of Americans filing for unemployment dropped last week
USA TODAY via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoDespite Amazon, Disney and several other companies continuing to lay off thousands of workers, the...
Jobless claims tick higher as layoffs rise
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNew applications for jobless benefits ticked higher during the final week of July, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department. In the...
Jobless claims ease as Fed weighs more rate hikes
The Hill via Yahoo News· 9 months agoJobless claims ticked down last week as Federal Reserve officials gathered in Jackson Hole, Wyo., to discuss further rate hikes amid enduring strength in...
Job openings, quitting fell, layoffs rose in January as labor market cooled
USA TODAY via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoEmployers advertised fewer job openings in January and the number of people quitting fell as layoffs...
'Starting to turn’: Cooling labor market shifts power back to bosses
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs recently as March, there were a record two jobs for every American seeking one. Some 4.5 million...
U.S. weekly jobless claims rise moderately to 220,000
United Press International via Yahoo News· 6 months agoNew U.S. jobless claims were up by a thousand in the week ending Dec. 2, to a seasonally adjusted...
US jobless aid programs bilked of up to $135 billion during COVID, watchdog says
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 8 months agoWaves of fraudulent claims for unemployment insurance benefits have episodically inflated the...
For 700,000 NJ workers who face barriers to jobless benefits, activists propose a bridge
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoDespite improvements in the state’s beleaguered unemployment system, over 700,000 New Jerseyans...
As job growth in California falls back, unemployment rate remains highest in the country
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 1 week agoA poster explains ways to file for unemployment insurance benefits at the JobTrain employment office...
Millennials didn’t kill the ‘organization man’ after all. Federal data reveals it was the boomers...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 9 months agoThe ideal job of the 1950s looked a great deal like a marriage. As Fortune editor William Whyte...