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The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by less in the month of May than Bloomberg had predicted.
The U.S. Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims reading for the past week, and this appears to be the longest run under the 300,000 mark in 14 or 15 years.
thinkstock.com Since it peaked at 9.6% in 2010, the U.S. annual unemployment rate has declined every year, reaching 6.2% in 2014. While the country may be on the path to full recovery from the...
ThinkstockWhen you hear that employers cannot find workers, or that job seekers are not happy with the available jobs, some market and economic watchers scratch their heads. Now a new Bureau of Labor...
While the number of people employed in the United States surged higher in May, the count of the long-term unemployed stayed at 2.4 million.
Equity futures are treating the latest unemployment data as "good news is bad news" because it means that Federal Reserve hawks will have a stronger case to raise interest rates sooner than Yellen...
Most of the states with the highest unemployment rates have seen their labor markets rebound over the past year. In the past month, however, the unemployment rates of some of these states inched up.
The national unemployment rate for April was 5.4%, and the lowest unemployment rate in the country was less than half that, 2.5% in Nebraska.
24/7 Wall St. has laid out 10 different reasons why the Federal Reserve is unlikely to hike interest rates too far or too fast.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has reported that the Producer Price Index for final demand fell by 0.4% in April.
The Chicago Federal Reserve recently released a report showing its projections regarding the changing labor force composition and the natural rate of unemployment.
As the U.S. economy adds jobs at a fast clip month by month, the rate for teenagers remains extremely high.
ADP showed a projected 169,000 private sector jobs added in April, but TrimTabs estimates that some 327,000 jobs were created.
Fresno, Calif., got another black eye, as Gallup has named it the city where people are least likely to feel safe and secure.
In 2014, data theft reached record levels. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were 783 data breaches last year, a substantial increase from both the previous year and the previous...