The December gains drove the unemployment rate down from 6.8 per cent a month earlier, though it remains a full percentage point higher than last year. “The Canadian job market ended 2024 on an upbeat ...
American workers enjoy unusual job security. Layoffs are running below the pre-pandemic trend. On Thursday, the Labor Department reported that just 211,000 people applied for unemployment benefits ...
Guam’s unemployment further fell to 3.4% in September, the lowest since the pandemic years, even as 55,200 working-age civilians “did not want a job” during a survey that period. That’s ...
Job growth was more than triple the amount expected, with experts guessing on average that 25,000 jobs would be added in the final month of 2024. The previous month's unemployment rate had come ...
About 6.63 million Americans are unemployed, and many rely on unemployment checks to get them through until their next job. In California, the unemployment rate grew from 5.1 percent to 5.4 ...
U.S. hiring picked up unexpectedly in December as employers added a strong 256,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, another sign of the economy's resilience in the face of high interest ...
Today's jobs report is expected show modestly slowing payroll gains and a steady unemployment rate, but be ready for a ...
The numbers are out! Employers added 256,000 jobs in December, capping a year of resilient (though slower) job growth. The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1 percent. Stocks are inching down ...
said there were some concerns in the job market at the start of 2024, but the data indicated signs of equilibrium in the second half. "In the first half of 2024, we saw unemployment start rising ...
Americans on the hunt for a new job are facing the lowest level of hiring in a decade, and time spent on unemployment is getting longer. CNN values your feedback 1.