US jobless claims filings rose by 2,000 to 223,000 for the week ending March 15, the Labor Department said Thursday. That’s ...

Weekly applications for jobless benefits are considered a proxy for layoffs, and have remained mostly in a range between ...

Applications for US unemployment benefits were little changed last week at a relatively low level that underscores a ...

Slightly more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, but layoffs remain historically low. U.S. jobless claims ...

Shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams said: “While we welcome today’s fall in unemployment, it’s concerning that jobs in this country are increasingly low paid and insecure. “With ...

There’s no cocktail a central banker hates more than high unemployment mixed with high inflation. That cocktail, also known as stagflation, was in the limelight after the Federal Reserve’s March ...

The unemployment rate ticked up to a still-healthy 4.1%. Overall, while layoffs remain low by historical standards, some high ...

Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, said that “further progress may be delayed” on inflation because of tariffs. Officials kept ...

The government has received a rating of 4.2 out of 10 in the latest Ipsos Issues Monitor survey, the lowest on record since ...