ROME, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Italy’s unemployment rate fell unexpectedly in August to 7.3%, the lowest since January 2009, national statistics bureau ISTAT reported on Monday, as a net 59,000…
By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) – German unemployment rose in September but less than expected, slowly showing the first cracks in what had been a very resilient labour market. The…
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve may be on the cusp of “something rare” by lowering inflation without a major blow to jobs and growth, and…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In another bizarre moment at the microphone, U.S. President Joe Biden bragged to the American people that under his administration, unemployment is below 14%. While 14% unemployment…
LONDON (Reuters) – The euro rose against the dollar on Friday and euro zone bonds yields fell after data showed a big increase in the U.S. unemployment rate in August,…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. economy added more jobs than expected in August, but a rise in the unemployment rate and moderation in wage growth pointed to an easing…
By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) – German unemployment rose more than expected in August, showing the first cracks in what had been until now a very resilient labour market. The…
California Lawmakers Push Bill To Give Striking Workers Unemployment Benefits Will Kessler on August 21, 2023 California lawmakers are planning to introduce a bill that would allow striking workers to…
(Reuters) – Record low unemployment in June highlighted Russia’s stark labour shortage, statistics data showed on Wednesday, even as the rebound from last year’s economic slump continued with double-digit jumps…
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s unemployment rate fell to 11.60%, a 15-year low, down from 13.26% three months earlier, data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Thursday. The unemployment…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Sunday that he expected the nation’s jobless rate to lift from near a 48-year low on the back of higher interest…
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – The CEOs of Australia’s two biggest banks said on Thursday a tight labour market was keeping late home loan repayments below historic levels even…
By Alexander Marrow and Darya Korsunskaya (Reuters) – Russia’s unemployment rate dropped to a record low 3.3% in April, data showed on Wednesday, highlighting the labour shortage that is stifling…
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly on Monday said it would be quite surprising for the central bank to…
By Kopano Gumbi PRETORIA (Reuters) – South Africa’s unemployment rate rose in the first quarter after declining for four consecutive quarters last year, data showed on Tuesday, as the country…
House Passes Pandemic Fraud Bill To Recover Billions In Illicit COVID-19 Unemployment Payments Arjun Singh on May 11, 2023 The Republican-led House of Representatives passed a bill to address COVID-19…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s government is set to cut its forecasts for inflation while also predicting lower unemployment for longer in 2023/24 budget next week, a mix that it hopes…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone unemployment rate fell to 6.5% in March, the European Union’s statistics office Eurostat said, a decline that points to a further tightening of the labour…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate eased to 3.1% in the January to March period, improving for the eleventh consecutive quarter as economic activity continued to…
By Dan Burns and Howard Schneider (Reuters) – The Black unemployment rate hit a record low in March, a milestone for a U.S. labor market that most policymakers and economists…
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – MD Hossain Morshed, a 49-year-old councilman elected to Atlantic City’s Fourth Ward, faces charges of falsifying voter registrations, making false statements to the FBI, and submitting…
NEW YORK, NY – Layoffs in multiple sectors of the New York economy are taking their toll on the state’s unemployment figures. This week, the number of unemployment claims in…
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s jobless rate eased to 10.8% in January, down from an upwardly revised 12.4% in December, data from statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday. Seasonally adjusted data…
By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The number of Ecuadorians braving the trek north to Mexico in hopes of reaching the United States jumped exponentially last year amid a…
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s jobless rate stood at 11.6% in December, unchanged from an upwardly revised 11.6% in November, data from statistics service ELSTAT showed on Wednesday. Seasonally adjusted data…