The jobless rate in the U.S. fell to a four-year low of 7.6 percent in March for the wrong reasons. Instead of an increase in the number of those finding work, 290,000 people dropped from the ranks of the unemployed....
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A job seeker speaks with a State Department employee about job opportunities with the federal government during a job fair in Boston.
Discouraged Workers, Retirees Not to Blame for Jobless Rate Drop
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Workers erect an exterior wall panel in an apartment building under construction in Peoria, Illinois, on March 28, 2013.
Low-Skilled Visas: Cap Key to Deal
Two years ago, the U.S. certified about 75,000 low-skilled laborers for guest-worker visas. Under the first year of a new plan that business and labor leaders have tentatively approved as part of a Senate proposal to revise the nation’s immigration...
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Job seekers at a job fair in Southfield, Michigan.
White House Warns of ‘Self-Inflicted’ Wounds for a Recovering Economy
The White House is taking today’s employment report as a sign that the economy is healing from “the wounds inflicted” by the worst downturn since the Great Depression, while warning Congress against creating any “self-inflicted wounds.” Such as the looming...
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Job seekers fill out applications at the Rigzone Oil & Gas Career Fair in San Antonio, Texas.
7.9% Unemployment: Election Day
After millions of Americans already have voted early in the presidential election of 2012, the final government snapshot of the labor market in the U.S. before Election Day shows that unemployment stood at 7.9 percent in October. The addition of...
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An Secret Service agent stands lookout as Mitt Romney delivers remarks at a victory rally Lebanon, Ohio, on Oct. 13, 2012.
Morning in Ohio: 7% Unemployment
The unemployment rate in Ohio — the state that has voted the way the nation has in 12 consecutive presidential elections — slid a couple of notches to 7 percent in September. That’s the word from the Labor Department today....
Read more »Obama’s 5% Advantage: Gallup Poll
President Barack Obama’s advantage over Republican Mitt Romney — which disappeared during three days of polling following their first debate — stands at 5 percentage points in the newest Gallup report of seven days of daily tracking surveys. Earlier today,...
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Romney: China Manufacturing Wins
In TV ads, President Barack Obama has tagged Republican Mitt Romney, former chief executive of Bain Capital, as “an outsourcer-in-chief.” In his own newest ad, Romney is returning the charge. With a graphic depiction of lost manufacturing jobs in the...
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A job seeker speaks with an employer at the Veterans On Wall Street job fair in New York.
Jobs Added: 163,000 — Unemployment Rate Rises: 8.3 pct
Updated at 9:25 am and 9:45 am EDT The monthly gain in jobs in July has nearly doubled the past two months’ anemic reports — and nearly tripled the revised gain for June. Yet the unemployment rate has inched up...
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Tourists view a lion on top of a glass roof inside the MGM Resorts International casino in Las Vegas.
Joblessness Down in Critical Cities
What happens in Las Vegas may stay there, but there’s less of it lately. Particularly in the way of joblessness. On a day when swing-state news is flying — with word of President Barack Obama holding an eight-point advantage over...
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