This blog post quantifies impact of demographic shifts and finds that they lowered unemployment rate by approximately 0.4 ...

According to a new study, true unemployment in the United States is a stunning 24.3%, as millions of Americans are “functionally unemployed." The bold claim is a stark contrast to the reported ...

A delayed jobs report shows U.S. employers added 119,00 jobs in September. Still, the unemployment rate inched up from 4.3% ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Last year, if you were laid off from your job without cause, you could get up to 26 weeks of assistance while you find a new job with benefits maxing out at $275 a week.

The U.S. economy added more jobs than expected in September, but a rise in the unemployment rate and downward revisions to ...

Legislatures in Alabama, North Carolina and Iowa are considering significant changes to unemployment benefits. These proposed changes could affect how people qualify for benefits, the amount they ...

Economic textbooks in the 1970s asserted that we had a natural rate of unemployment of 6%. Unemployment above that point would be deflationary; unemployment below that point would be inflationary. The ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a means-tested transfer program that is available to all households that meet the eligibility criteria. Therefore, SNAP is also a ...

Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held steady at 3.7% in June, the State Department of Commerce and Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday. Arkansas' unemployment rate remained ...