“Every employment insurance agency, if you ask them, will say it’s, you know, their busiest month,” said Michele Evermore at ...

Washington, DC, January 16, 2025-In the week ending January 11, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was ...

Analysis of December's strong jobs report, indicating a robust labor market and potential impact on Fed rate decisions. Click for my take on the jobs numbers.

While the number of jobless claim applications held steady ... This report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) looks at the number of people on payrolls in the U.S., the average ...

Jobless claims applications ticked up modestly last week, but the total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits rose to their highest level in more than three years.

After reporting a rebound by first-time claims for U.S. unemployment benefits in the previous week, the Labor Department released a ...

Applications for jobless ... Labor Department said Thursday, up from the previous week’s 203,000. The previous week's figure was the lowest since February of last year. The four-week average of ...

Colorado’s employment counts have become so unreliable the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ... Counts of unemployment insurance claims are reliable, the BLS said, but not the data sets that ...

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits ... enough jobs to keep up with labor force growth." A separate report from the Commerce Department's Census Bureau showed construction spending ...