The Latest Breaking News from Unemployment

Employers expand workforces even as growth slows, surprising economists

The jobless rate has fallen back to 3.6 per cent after 76,000 jobs were added to the economy.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues have made major mistakes in their battle with inflation.

The RBA and whoever happens to be in government right now want unemployment up above 4 per cent to 4.25 or 4.5 per cent.

A post by Prof. Howard Friedman (Religion Clause), which he kindly allowed me to pass along: Yesterday, the Minnesota Court of Appeals decided four separate appeals from decisions of Unemployment Law Judges who denied unemployment benefits because an applicant refused on religious grounds to comply with an employer's Covid vaccine…

on the grounds that the firing was for "misconduct" (such as violation of a social media policy)?

Stronger than expected job and pay data makes interest rate rise more likely, driving up two-year bond yields

85,000 people aged 16 and over in Scotland were unemployed between February and April

UK interest rates expected to hit 5.5% by December after regular pay grows by a record, sending two-year bond yields soaring

Unemployment in the North East is lower than the national average for the first time since the figures began

A return to growth for the UK economy in April was today offset by caution in the recruitment sector after staffing firm Robert Walters warned on profits.