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While the United States as a whole is all but at a standstill when it comes to employment growth, Minnesota's Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) announced almost 6,000 jobs were ...

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Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Colorado rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to ...

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There are officially more job seekers than open jobs in the US labor market. Unemployment claims increased by 3.5% week-over-week at the end of August, WalletHub found. Connecticut and Tennessee saw ...

*The August 2025 jobs report brought troubling news for the Black community. The unemployment rate for Black or African American workers jumped to 7.5%, up from 7.2% in July. This is the highest rate ...

The Black unemployment rate spiked for another consecutive month, according to the latest report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In August, the number of jobless Black Americans climbed to 7 ...

The economy added a skimpy 22,000 new jobs in August and the unemployment rate rose to a nearly four-year high, underscoring the increasing fragility of the U.S. labor market. The fourth subpar ...

Unemployment for Black Americans is at its worst level since the pandemic, with some economists seeing the latest results as a sign of worse things to come for the US economy. The unemployment rate ...