The good news: Employers aren't firing people any more. The bad news: They're not hiring all that much, either. To be sure, they are doing some hir...

WASHINGTON -- The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to seasonally adjusted 324,000, the lowest since January 2008. The drop ...

A college degree doesn’t guarantee anyone a big paycheck anymore. About 284,000 Americans with college degrees were working minimum wage jobs la...

WASHINGTON -- Whether it means opening school track meets to a deaf child or developing a new lunch menu with safe alternatives for students with food...

BRUSSELS -- Record unemployment and fraying social welfare systems in southern Europe risk creating a new divide in the continent, the EU warned Tuesd...

WASHINGTON -- The average number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits over the past month fell to the lowest level since March 2008, a sign th...

From the looks of the latest monthly snapshot of the American labor market released by the government on Friday, a long-bleak jobs picture is finally ...

Another month, another jobs report with something for both the optimists and pessimists. Here's something both should agree on, though: The job market...

The job market in November performed notably better than expected, especially in light of expected damage to hiring from late October's Hurricane Sandy.

The U.S. economy added 146,000 jobs in November as the unemployment rate dropped to 7.7 percent, the Labor Department said Friday. (SCROLL DOWN FO...

Unemployment does not make for an enthusiastic holiday season. Fear and dread hang in the air where sparkly holiday lights should. But there is hope! Working in the "jobs" industry allows me an up-close look at new job search technology.

WASHINGTON -- An increase in hiring helped lower unemployment rates in 37 U.S. states last month, the latest indication that the job market is slowly ...

What do Franklin Roosevelt and President Barack Obama have in common? Well, besides both attending Columbia and Harvard universities, they're two pres...

LONDON (AP) — Unemployment in the 17-country eurozone hit a record high of 11.6 percent in September, official figures showed Wednesday, a sign the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Unemployment rates fell in nearly all large U.S. cities in September from August, a sign that recent jobs gains have been widespre...

Regardless of who wins the presidential election, entrepreneurship will pick up. But growth will be highly controlled unless government starts to recognize the financial realities of small business.

BRUSSELS -- Unemployment across the 17 countries that use the euro remained at its record high rate of 11.4 percent in August renewing concerns that e...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - When Daniel McCune graduated from college three years ago, he was optimistic his goo...

You might have heard that unemployment fell in August only because armies of the unemployed are despairing of finding work. The reality is more complicated -- but true enough that somebody should do something about it.

NEW YORK -- Vincent Giordano has held up a "Hire Me" sign on the streets of New York City every Monday through Friday, during regular business hours, ...