The rise in the jobless rate is driven by a jump in people looking for work, not an increase in layoffs, the state’s labor department said.

The top federal employer in Washington state is the Defense Department, followed by the Postal Service, the state Employment ...

FloridaCommerce released the January figures showing that the unemployment rate came in at 3.5%. That’s the first increase in ...

An almost 6% rise in Arkansans without jobs helped push the state’s jobless rate higher in January compared with January 2024 ...

According to state officials, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for January was 3%, the same as the previous six consecutive months after benchmark revision. In January, 662,850 persons were ...

Nationally, the unemployment rate was 4.0% in January, down from 4.1% in December. Nonfarm payrolls, calculated from a mail survey of employers, fell from the previous month but were up from a year ...

Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in Pennsylvania last week compared with the week prior.

The U.S. government spent $710 billion in the first month of the Trump administration, more than was spent during the initial ...

U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 220,000 last week, down 2,000 claims from 222,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Alabama dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Ohio dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of ...

Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in North Carolina last week compared with the week prior.