This chart shows the U.S. labor market is running on fumes. Why that’s a risk for the stock market.

A weakening U.S. labor market is a risk for both the U.S. economy and markets right now. But the most closely watched numbers ...
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Unemployment Rates By Education Level

Key Points ・Higher education consistently lowers unemployment risk. Federal data show that people with a bachelor’s degree or ...

Long-term unemployment in US surges to 1.9 million as job openings dry up

the long term unemployed now account for almost 26 percent of the total number unemployed; including a high percentage of ...
Business Insider

It turns out the labor market is much worse than we thought

The US added 73,000 jobs in July, short of the expected 106,000. Unemployment rose as expected to 4.2%, the same rate as in March through May. Job growth from May and June was revised down, showing a ...

First-time unemployment claims surge to highest level since 2021 — but most of the increase is tied to Texas flooding

Initial jobless claims rose by z27,000 to 263,000 in the week ended Sept. 6, the Labor Department said Thursday. It’s the highest level since October 2021. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal ...

Texas jobless claims spike 92% — But officials say it’s fraud, not job loss

In the first week of September, though, the state saw its largest weekly batch of unemployment claims not only for this year, but going all the way back to pandemic times in 2021! The report this ...
Washington Examiner

White House’s stimulus math doesn’t add up

Responding to criticism that massive federal spending has not managed to hold unemployment below the 8 percent that they promised, White House officials are saying that those numbers from January 2009 ...