Unemployment Claims

Spending Up, Jobless Claims Down, But Still No Economic Recovery Yet

Posted 11.25.2009 | Business


There's good news and bad news today for the US economy. The good news is that consumer spending rose 0.7% last month, according to the Commerce Depar...

New Jobless Claims Rise Unexpectedly To 627K, 6.7M Still Unemployed

Yahoo! Finance | Christopher S. Rugaber, AP Economics Writer | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of people filing new jobless claims jumped unexpectedly last week, and the total unemployment benefit rolls rose to more...

Number Of People On Unemployment Falls For First Time Since January

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — On the surface, the government seemed to signal Thursday that more Americans are finding jobs: The number of people receiving unemp...

Jobless Claims At 640K: More Than Expected

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.24.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — Worse-than-expected news on unemployment and home sales Thursday dampened optimism that a broad economic recovery might be near. M...