Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Massachusetts dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to ...

January hiring was narrow. Healthcare (44,000 new jobs), retail (34,000) and government (32,000) together accounted for 77% ...

Former Fitchburg Massachusetts state Senator Dean Tran will spend a year and a half in federal prison for unemployment ...

Tran, 50, a Fitchburg Republican who served in the Legislature from 2017 to January 2021, proclaimed his innocence as he left the federal courthouse in Boston and said he plans to appeal his ...

Generally, the U.S. unemployment rate has held steady in the last year, but Black, Asian and disabled Americans have seen a ...

Economists had been expecting an overall healthy reading, with 169,000 net new jobs created in the month and the unemployment ...

A strong January jobs report has investors believing the Federal Reserve likely won't be cutting interest rates in the near ...

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball announced Friday the expansion of assistance programs to help federal workers living in ...

Recent U.S. Department of Labor data reveals subtle differences in unemployment trends between foreign-born and native-born ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 143,000 new jobs in January, below the consensus estimate of 175,000. Click for more ...