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    Home Tags Unemployment

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    Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen has expressed a desire to maintain lower interest rates for longer, even with the unemployment rate about as low as the Fed thinks it can go, to bring discouraged workers back into the job hunt and into positions. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
    Economy

    Economy might need only 50,000 jobs per month, Fed bank finds

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    October 24, 2016 9:24 pm
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    Kanockwa Horton, left, from Stone Mountain and Jacqueline Merritt, from Atlanta are first in line at the Airport Community Job Fair, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, in Atlanta. Hundreds of applicants were in line before the 10 a.m. opening. (Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
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    Jobless claims rise more than expected to 260,000

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    October 20, 2016 12:31 pm
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    Forecasters in the private sector had expected a modest uptick in the jobless claims to 254,000. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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    Jobless claims hit lowest level since 1973

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    October 13, 2016 12:32 pm
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    There were just 1.3 jobless workers for every advertised job opening in November, the Department of Labor announced Tuesday, a level not seen before this year in 16 years. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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    Job creation at slowest pace since December

    Joseph Lawler -
    October 12, 2016 2:40 pm
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    Forty-seven percent of men ages 25-54 say they take pain medication, and two-thirds of it is prescribed. (iStock Photo)
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    Study: Nearly half of working-age men out of labor force take daily pain meds

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    October 7, 2016 8:56 pm
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    Private-sector forecasters had expected claims to decline slightly after being driven higher the past two weeks by big snowstorms on the East Coast. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
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    Underemployment hasn’t improved since February

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    October 7, 2016 1:32 pm
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    The construction industry has essentially stopped adding jobs even as the rest of the economy has continued to generate jobs at a pace more than sufficient to keep the unemployment rate trending down. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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    Construction job creation has stalled since the spring

    Joseph Lawler -
    October 7, 2016 1:06 pm
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    September's job creation fell just short of expectations. Economists in the private sector had expected payroll job growth to rise to 168,000. (Sam VarnHagen/Ford Motor Co. via AP)
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    Job creation falls just short of expectations in September at 156,000, unemployment at 5 percent

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    October 7, 2016 12:32 pm
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    Economists in the private sector had projected that jobless claims would rise just slightly to 256,000. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
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    Jobless claims plumb lowest levels since 1973 in good sign for US

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    October 6, 2016 12:33 pm
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    The jobless claims are closely watched by economists because they send a frequently updated signal about the health of the labor market. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
    Economy

    Jobless claims hover at ultra-low 254,000

    Joseph Lawler -
    September 29, 2016 12:32 pm
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