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The U.S. Department of Labor has released the latest report on weekly jobless claims, and the figure was higher than expected.
Payrolls views offered by ADP and by TrimTabs likely will mute at least some of the more aggressive payrolls estimates from economists for Friday's Labor Department report.
Anyone looking for a rapid recovery from Europe's deep and prolonged recession will find no comfort in the unemployment rate for the euro area in November.
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its unemployment situation report for the month of December.
Some 20 states were to increase their minimum wage on January 1, according to the National Employment Law Project.
North Dakota has the nation's lowest unemployment rate of 2.7%. However, there is probably no other state where such a large percentage of those jobs are at risk.
During the recession and for several years afterward, the ability of many Americans to find good jobs was eroded. According to new research, the problem has faded.
Even as the national unemployment rate inches down, there are several states where it is already below 4.0% and more where the rate is below 4.5%.
ThinkstockBy the first day of the new year, more than half the states will have passed legislation raising the minimum wage above the federal minimum of $7.25 first established in 2009. Four states...
Most of the conclusions of the ILO Global Wage Report 2014/2015 were grim, particularly in terms of advances in the United States.
Following the Black Friday strikes at more than 1,600 Walmart locations across the United States, fast-food workers will walk off the job in 160 cities on Thursday.
Seasonal jobs and what they pay should boost the economy in the final two months of the year, but that may not last.
New research shows the average American worker earns 21 days of paid time off annually but uses just 77% of that time, forfeiting about five days a year.
The unemployment figure in Spain remains staggeringly high, which means that it is years, or perhaps decades, from a complete recovery from the worst recession in decades.
In a reversal of decades of American companies moving manufacturing from the United States to China, executives of large firms appear to have changed their minds.