Unemployment claims are decreasing in some areas while soaring in others, highlighting the currently uneven state of the U.S.

Massachusetts and Connecticut saw the highest jumps in unemployment percentage of all the states, with states like Ohio, Mississippi and Virginia not far behind.

Colorado’s unemployment rate has stalled for a second month in a row, which economists say could be signaling positive movement in the job market. The state unemployment rate has sat at 4.8% from ...

People filing new unemployment claims in Massachusetts and eligible existing claimants can now get benefits for 30 weeks.

While unemployment numbers stayed the same across Los Angeles and Riverside counties in May 2025, joblessness was down in Orange County and in the Inland Empire as a whole.

Despite Illinois experiencing job growth in some sectors, it remains one of the states with the highest unemployment rates.

Massachusetts’ unemployment rate climbed to 4.6% in April, climbing steadily above the national rate of 4.2%.

The not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metro area increased one-half of a percentage point in April from the same time last year to 4.1%, according to data from… ...

Michigan's unemployment rate rose to 5.5% in March, according to state data, up from 5.4% in February. The jobless rate in March 2024 was 4.2%.

Indiana's unemployment rate fell to 3.7% in May, down from 3.9% in April, falling for the fifth straight month.

Florida’s unemployment rate increased to 3.7 percent in April, the third time it has ticked up this year. The rate was 3.3 percent in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metropolitan statistical area ...

The state’s workforce grew by 5,000 people in March. Unemployment grew by 0.1 percent to 3.5 percent in April. That’s 2,000 more Iowans looking for work compared to March.