Unemployment Figures

Unemployment Rate: 9.4 Percent In May

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — Employers throttled back on layoffs in May and cut the fewest jobs in any month since the financial crisis erupted last fall _ rais...

Jobless Rate Climbs In 46 States

Wall Street Journal | STU WOO and SUDEEP REDDY | Posted 05.18.2009 | Business


California and North Carolina in March posted their highest jobless rates in at least three decades, as unemployment increased in all but a handful of...

Obama Administration Vows To "Break The Destructive Cycle" Of Job Loss

news.yahoo.com | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics


The Obama administration says it will do what is necessary to "break the destructive cycle" of job loss and put Americans back to work. Labor Secre...

20,000 Jobs Lost In April

New York Times | PETER S. GOODMAN and MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 05.11.2008 | Business


The American economy lost 20,000 jobs in April, the fourth consecutive month of decline, in what many economists took as powerful evidence that the Un...