Laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits today are almost twice as likely as their counterparts during the recession of the 1980s to be accused ...
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The tally of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits fell unexpectedly for the fifth straight week, a hopeful sign tha...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — As unemployment spikes, the cost of compassion is going up too. By as much as $100 billion....
New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business
So it's time for an emergency jobs program. How is a jobs program different from a second stimulus? It's a matter of priorities. The 2009 Obama sti...
Pavlina R. Tcherneva | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
If the U.S. government creates a permanent, voluntary public employment program that offers a living-wage job to anyone willing and able to work in a public service project, unemployment will be addressed directly.
AP | EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Economists expect the joblessness that has weighed down the nation's economic recovery will start to slowly abate in 2010, but they predict consumers ...
ABC News | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
When the pink slip comes, trouble follows -- financial, but emotional as well. Three in 10 Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll sa...
Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. A family in Indianapolis,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business
One million people will stop receiving unemployment benefits in January unless Congress makes a move before the Christmas recess, according to an anal...
The Hill | Mike Soraghan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
House Democratic leaders, worried they've appeared unresponsive to rising unemployment because they were absorbed by healthcare, are aiming for a legi...
Dean Baker | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
Imagine if workers in the US, like workers in Germany, were dealing with the recession by putting in four-day weeks (while getting paid for five) or getting an extra two weeks of paid vacation. This sure beats being unemployed.
usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
You know about the bailouts, the stimulus plan, cash for clunkers, and moola for mansions. But for all the anxiety they've caused, those government gi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
The GOP called for the check Wednesday night, having had enough of the fight over an extension of unemployment benefits that the party had held up for...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Attila Streyar and his t...
Rep. Joe Sestak | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Losing health care along with one's job is something Americans should not have to cope with at this difficult time. So I have introduced the Extended COBRA Continuation Protection Act of 2009.
Yahoo! Finance | Tami Luhby, CNNMoney.Com Senior Writer | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
Another day, another 7,000 people run out of unemployment benefits....
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
Rather than do what is right, Republicans did what was politically convenient, twice blocking the unemployment extension last week in an effort to derail other economic recovery programs.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
If Congress fails to pass an extension of unemployment benefits, Ricky Macoy of Quinlan, Texas plans to take it out on the Republican Party by camping...
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats said Thursday they have reached a deal to extend unemployment insurance benefits to the nearly 2 million jobless w...
Dawn Teo | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Arizona Democratic Party spokesperson Jennifer Johnson said Thursday, "It's disappointing but not surprising that Kyl single-handedly blocked this vote.
Forbes | Posted 10.08.2009 | Technology
Does writing a blog constitute work? That appears to be the position of the New York State Department of Labor, which recently declared a laid-off att...
The New York Times | Jackie Calmes | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- With unemployment expected to rise well into next year even as the economy slowly recovers, the Obama administration and Democratic lead...
Bloomberg | Michael McKee and Alex Tanzi | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business
For the first time, the average amount of time it takes fired employees to find a new job exceeds the length of their standard unemployment benefits. ...
Diane Tucker | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media
Ronald Reagan governed over high unemployment numbers, and he was covered by a hyper-critical media. Yet today, most TV news outlets are giving President Obama a free pass on equally bleak statistics.
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Job hunters will face long odds well into next year. As the unemployment rate inches closer to 10 percent, most businesses are nowh...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business