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January 19, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits plummeted last week to 352,000, the fewest since April 2008...
January 6, 2012
(AP) Employers added a net 200,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent, the lowest since…
December 2, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The unemployment rate fell last month to its lowest level in more than two and a half…
November 29, 2011
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Labor officials have moved to cut off federal contracts held by one of the nation's…
November 8, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Labor Department says companies and governments posted 3.35 million job openings...
November 4, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The report suggests that President Barack Obama will likely face the voters with the highest unemployment rate…
November 2, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Unemployment rates fell in about three-quarters of large U.S. cities in September, a sign that the nation's…
October 7, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - African American unemployment dropped from 16.7 percent to 16 percent and black teen joblessness dipped slightly from…
September 29, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply last week, an encouraging sign that layoffs are…
August 5, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hiring picked up slightly in the U.S. in July and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.1 percent,…
June 3, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Labor Department report offered startling evidence that the U.S. economy is slowing, hampered by high gas…
May 11, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. companies in March advertised the most jobs since the peak of the 2008 financial crisis, a…
May 6, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Private employers shrugged off high gas prices and created 268,000 jobs -- the most since February 2006...
April 29, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The strike was the scene of Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign before an assassin's bullet took…
February 3, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. service sector, which employs nearly 90 percent of America's work force, grew in January at…
January 7, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Labor Department says employers added 103,000 jobs in December, an improvement from November but far below…
November 10, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fewer people in the U.S. applied for unemployment aid last week, the third drop in four weeks…
November 5, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The unemployment rate, measured by a separate survey of households, remained stuck at 9.6 percent for the…
November 4, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - A gain of 60,000 jobs is far below the 200,000 jobs a month needed to keep up…
October 28, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week than in any week since July, a hopeful sign…