A still-strong job market will keep the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates until September, and from delivering more ...

Q2 earnings season will be informative as Corporate America updates us on how the uncertain trade policy outlook is affecting business conditions.

Her first chart, sourced from the Federal Reserve’s FRED database, displayed a stark decoupling: the unemployment rate is down, yet the fiscal deficit has surged past 7% of GDP. “This started around ...

At a national level, the unemployment rate also remained stable in April at 4.2%. In Michigan, payroll jobs rose by 11,000, or 0.2%, in April, according to a monthly survey of employers, DTMB said.

US job growth beat forecasts in March and the unemployment rate edged up, pointing to a healthy labor market before the global economy gets hit by widespread tariffs. Nonfarm payrolls increased ...

The unemployment rate was lower than 3.5% for nearly two full years between the end of 1951 and most of 1953. Lower rates were recorded in 1968 and 1969 as well.

Unemployment During the 2020 Recession During the much shorter two-month recession set off by the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment climbed from just 3.5% in February 2020 to 14.7% in April 2020 ...

As of Thursday, California had the second-highest unemployment rate in the United States, tying with the District of Columbia. The only state with a higher unemployment rate was Nevada, with 5.7%.

Of 88 counties in Ohio, unemployment rates from November are higher in 85. Ohio’s unemployment rate of 3.9 percent is below the national average of 4 percent. Reach Cade Higgins at 567-242-0351 ...

Virginia’s annual job growth rate of 1.7% has added 72,800 jobs in the past year. South Dakota had the lowest state unemployment rate in November, at 1.9%. Nevada had the highest, at 5.7%.