unemployment

Analysts expect a faster pace than the first quarter, but it comes off a low base due to the lockdowns in Shanghai in April and May last year.

President Joe Biden keeps seeing good economic news and bad public approval ratings.

Unemployment rates have now returned to pre-pandemic levels, but thousands of applicants are still experiencing the same benefits processing delays that were commonplace in 2020 and 2021 — and some can’t even get a human to talk to on the phone

Nonfarm payrolls in September increased 263,000 for the month, compared to the Dow Jones estimate of 275,000. The unemployment rate was 3.5%.

Slightly fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to stand out as one of the strongest segments of the U.S. economy.

The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that they have raised the benchmark interest rate by 0.75% to curb high inflation.

America’s employers shrugged off high inflation and weakening growth to add 372,000 jobs in June, a surprisingly strong gain that will likely spur the Federal Reserve to keep sharply raising interest rates to cool the economy and slow price increases