by - April 3, 2020 3:46 pm
The U.S. jobless rate rose to 4.4% in March from 3.5% in February, with the number of unemployed rising by 1.4 million, according to new data reported Friday (April 3)…
by - February 7, 2020 3:30 pm
Nonfarm U.S. employment rose by 225,000 in January, better than the 147,000 in December but below the 269,000 in January 2019. The jobless rate was 3.6%, above the 3.5% in…
by - June 7, 2019 4:32 pm
Only new 75,000 positions were added to the U.S. economy in May as the labor market continues to tighten and several states push into job loss territory amid concerns that…
by - May 3, 2019 1:44 pm
The U.S. labor market saw a strong uptick of 263,000 jobs in April as the nation’s jobless rate fell 0.2 percentage points between months, the lowest level since December 1969,…
by - February 1, 2019 11:49 am
U.S. payroll employment continued to see full-bodied growth in January as more than 300,000 new workers were added to the nation’s brimming labor pool in January, according to the U.S….
by - November 2, 2018 4:33 pm
The U.S. economy added another 250,000 nonfarm jobs in October as the U.S. labor pool hit a record high of 156.562 million workers, the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor…
by - October 5, 2018 1:08 pm
The U.S. unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since former President Richard Nixon was in office as thousands of new workers continue to enter the workforce and job-hoppers seek…
by - September 7, 2018 12:10 pm
More than 200,000 jobs were added to the expanding U.S. economy in August although the total number of new workers on payrolls in June and July was revised downward by…
by - August 3, 2018 9:47 am
The nation’s jobless rate edged back under 4% as employers across the U.S. continue to post “help wanted” signs to attract needed workers in the tight job marketplace, the U.S….
by - July 6, 2018 3:01 pm
The U.S. economy continued to see strong job growth in June, but private sector employers are increasingly worried about labor shortages as several fast-growing industries are having more difficulty finding…
by - May 4, 2018 11:21 am
The nation’s red-hot job market fell below 4% for the first time since the waning days of former President Bill Clinton administration nearly 20 years ago. The drop was aided…
by - January 5, 2018 3:35 pm
The nation’s thriving labor market hit a wall in December with weak job growth of only 148,000, but American employers still managed to close out 2017 with more than 2…
by - November 3, 2017 11:46 am
The nation’s jobless rate in October was 4.1%, down from 4.2% in September as 261,000 new positions were added to payrolls, largely offsetting last month’s decline that largely reflected the…
by - July 7, 2017 11:54 am
The U.S. job market added 40,000 more jobs to the U.S. economy than expected as new hires, part-time and marginally attached workers continue to enter the labor pool seeking gainful…
by - May 5, 2017 12:02 pm
The U.S. economy added another 211,000 jobs in April as the nation’s jobless rate edged down to the lowest level in nearly a decade at 4.4%, according to data released…
by - April 7, 2017 9:57 am
The unemployment rate fell to the lowest rate in nearly 10 years but the number of nonfarm payroll jobs added to the U.S. economy came in at the lowest level…
by - February 3, 2017 11:46 am
The nation’s jobless rate rose in January to 4.8% and added 227,000 new payroll jobs as the new Trump administration takes over the reins of the nation’s economy, according to…
by - January 6, 2017 10:52 am
In the final snapshot of the nation’s workforce under the administration of President Barack Obama, the U.S. economy added 156,000 workers in December and ended the year with a jobless…
by - December 2, 2016 9:36 am
The U.S. jobless rate fell to 4.6% in November as the health care and professional and business services sectors continued to add new jobs to the nation’s economy, according to…
by - November 4, 2016 9:42 am
The U.S. economy added a steady 161,000 to employee rolls in October as the nation’s unemployment fell to 4.9% just four days before the nation’s presidential election, the U.S. Bureau…
