Kim Parker contributed to this chapter. The COVID-19 pandemic sent shockwaves through the U.S. labor market. Businesses ...

When the Labor Department releases January employment numbers, they’re likely to show decent, but unspectacular, job growth ...

Unemployment drops and wages rise - but hiring is lower than expected - Donald Trump has inherited a solid labor market - but ...

More Americans filed unemployment claims last week, but the labor market remains healthy and layoffs relatively low.

Forbes Advisor has compiled this history as a handy guide ... of the pandemic), the Fed will raise rates in order to stymie economic activity. The unemployment rate will tend to rise (as has ...

In April 2020, the unemployment rate soared to 14.7%, “the highest rate and the largest over-the-month increase in the history of the data (available back to January 1948),” according to the U ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Local unemployment rates showed a month-over-month jump in December, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported. Mahoning County’s unemployment rate in December was 5.2 ...

Her expertise is in personal finance and investing, and real estate. The U.S. unemployment rate is released on the first Friday of every month for the preceding month. The current and past ...

From 2014 to 2024, Connecticut's and national unemployment rates followed similar trends. “CT's economy collapsed in 2008-2010 and has not yet recovered,” said Fred Carstensen, professor of ...

Prior to The Motley Fool, Jack covered business and economic trends as a reporter and policy analyst in Washington, D.C. Looking at the average rates of certificates of deposits (CDs) over time is ...

There's a chart that's been doing the rounds in recent ... the way you'd normally look at long-run historical figures like this). Now everything looks somewhat different. You can see that at ...