The unemployment rate remained flat at 3.7 percent in January, while job availability improved for the 14th straight month as the nascent economic recovery helped boost corporate profits, government data showed Friday. The number of people out of work fell a seasonally adjusted 0.8 ...
The unemployment rate in October was unchanged at 4.0 percent from the previous month, while job availability improved for the first time in two months with corporate profits picking up on the back of the economic recovery, government data showed Friday. The number of ...
After a career spent repairing trains, Francisco Marcos Gallego once thought he and his wife would end their days in comfort. Instead they are struggling to support their unemployed son and his children. “Even if it is hard, as long as I am alive, ...
The hollow hulk of Detroit’s once-majestic train station draws a steady stream of tourists to see how far the mighty Motor City has fallen. The Beaux Arts building was the tallest railway station in the world when it was built in 1913, and its ...
The U.S. may not regain "full employment" anytime soon. Companies didn't just fire workers during the Great Recession; they went on a hiring strike.
European leaders on Friday agreed to deploy €8 billion ($10.4 billion) to help create jobs for young people at a summit that also backed a tentative deal on the European Union’s next trillion-euro budget, despite simmering doubts. The threat of a “lost generation” of ...
High unemployment in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere is also tragic because of the emotional cost to the jobless of not being part of working society.
The unemployment rate rose by 1 percentage point to 4.2 percent in December, as the stronger yen and global economic slowdown prompted manufacturers to cut their workforces to the lowest level in over 50 years, the government reported Friday. Reflecting weak exports and industrial ...
