WASHINGTON — Some states are cutting the number of weeks that laid-off workers can get unemployment insurance, as a way to limit tax increases on businesses. View full post on All Stories

More than half of Tunisia’s population is under the age of 25 and despite the fact that the country has a high number of graduates, the youth unemployment rate is around 30%. View full post on All Stories

A report by the Israel National Employment Service (INES) today shows that the fall in unemployment is continuing. There was a seasonally adjusted drop of 0.7% in the number of unemployed in … View full post on All Stories

A busy week here and offshore for economic data, while it will also see what has been a mixed first quarter end on Thursday (and the March half year for a number of local companies).American unemployment, Australian building approvals and retail sales for February and the balance date for three of our big four banks [...]

The good news is that slowly, but surely, the number of new people filing for unemployment insurance is going down a little. View full post on All Stories

Even as the economy grew and the unemployment rate began to shrink, the number of Illinois households getting food stamps hit record levels in December, showing no signs of an economic recovery, and area food pantries say they’ve continued to see more people asking for help. There were 857,282 households … View full post on [...]

The number of U.S. homes receiving a foreclosure filing will climb about 20 percent in 2011, reaching a peak for the housing crisis, as unemployment remains high and banks resume seizures after a slowdown, RealtyTrac Inc. said. View full post on All Stories

Persistently high unemployment levels and a brutal job market contributed to a record number of workplace discrimination complaints in 2010, the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission… View full post on All Stories

While Georgia’s unemployment rate stuck stubbornly at 10 percent this year, the number of out-of-work people in Jackson County actually dropped at the end of the year – down to 9 percent over the past three months. View full post on All Stories

The tendency for decrease of unemployment for eight consecutive months is not connected to seasonal factors and is expected to continue, according to Bulgaria’s Labor Minister, Totyu Mladenov. In an interview for the Bulgarian News Agency on Monday, the minister said that his expectation for next year is for employment to increase by 0,6-0,7%, which [...]

Regulators on Friday shut down small banks in Michigan and Pennsylvania, boosting the number of U.S. banks that have failed this year to 151 as bad loans have mounted and the economy has been slow to heal. View full post on All Stories