“I like to decorate,” Khadija Collins exclaimed, her excitement evident as she showed a photograph on her phone of a bathroom she transformed with fall-colored flower arrangements and decor at the ...

Unemployment is at a 50-year low. The low rate is not from an unusually high job-finding rate out of unemployment but, rather, an unusually low rate at which people enter unemployment. The low entry ...

The rise in state-level unemployment rates in nearly a third of the country last month should raise concerns over the state of the U.S. economy, according to an economist who claims a recession might ...

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The September employment report was far stronger than generally expected. The unemployment rate edged down to 4.1 percent, while the establishment survey showed the economy adding 254,000 jobs. In ...

The U.S. unemployment rate—the percentage of the labor force without a job, but able to work and actively searching for it—is one of the key indicators of the overall health of the nation’s economy.

“An employee hired on a contract basis was doing the job quite well, so we proposed converting him to a regular position upon contract expiration, but he refused. It turned out he was planning to ...

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