Tag: Unemployment

A woman speaks to Maui Divers Jewelry representatives at a job fair in Honolulu. Recently released numbers show Hawaii boasts the United States' lowest jobless rate.

Hawaii sets new record low unemployment rate for any US state

Joseph Lawler · June 15, 2018 2:58 pm

In this Thursday, June 12, 2014 photo, people wait in line for the Cleveland Career Fair in Independence, Ohio. U.S. employers accelerated their hiring in June, adding a robust 288,000 jobs and helping drive the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, the lowest since September 2008, the Labor Department reported, Thursday, July 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Fewer people are on unemployment benefits than anytime in 44 years

Joseph Lawler · June 14, 2018 12:34 pm

Trump’s economic experiment: Growth without immigrants

Sean Higgins · June 12, 2018 4:01 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to reporters during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Nancy Pelosi is 100 percent wrong on the latest ‘consumer confidence’ data

Christian Datoc · June 7, 2018 9:41 pm

Total jobless claims running at lowest level in 44 years

Joseph Lawler · June 7, 2018 12:36 pm

Job openings hit a record high 6.7 million

Joseph Lawler · June 5, 2018 10:07 am

Coca-Cola employee passes out forms at a jobs fair hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus in Miami. The fair is aimed at lowering the especially high rate of unemployment in the black community.

Black unemployment rate hits new record low in May

Pete Kasperowicz · June 1, 2018 12:44 pm

Job applicants talk with employees of Hialeah Park, at a JobNewsUSA job fair in Florida. On Friday, the U.S. government issues the May jobs report.

US unemployment rate ties lowest level in nearly 50 years

Pete Kasperowicz · June 1, 2018 12:32 pm

Steve Bannon: Martin Luther King ‘would be proud’ of Trump

Katie Leach · May 24, 2018 1:00 am

Job seekers chat during the Opportunity Fair and Forum employment event in Dallas. On Thursday, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits a week earlier.

Jobless claims are running at the lowest level in nearly a half century

Joseph Lawler · May 17, 2018 12:31 pm

A man walks into the Center for American Progress, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, at their office in Washington.

Prominent progressive think tank endorses version of jobs guarantee

Joseph Lawler · May 15, 2018 3:42 pm

Trump’s Fed vice chair nominee promises transparency, accountability

Joseph Lawler · May 15, 2018 12:26 am