The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits surged to 258,000 last week, the highest level in over a year. Analysts attribute this spike primarily to the impact of Hurricane Helene ...

Economists largely believe the continued low number of weekly jobless claims combined with relatively steady continuing claims reflects a "low hire, low fire" type of labor market. In a note to ...

The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday after cutting it three times in a row last year, a ...

revisions to the household survey left the overall picture largely intact. The unemployment rate in July — which was initially reported as 4.3% — was revised lower. The 2.2 million increase in ...

I’ve already given my Biden economy retrospective, but I want to come back and double down on the main point there, because I ...

AP If unemployed immigrants were largely undercounted by government data, the demand for labor might be a lot weaker than what the current unemployment rate indicates, Alexander Bick, economic ...