Economists calculate the costs of unemployment to society in terms of the amount of aggregate income that is foregone because of resources left idle. That is a worrying number right now. Figures just ...

Updated on Jan. 31 with the latest employment cost index data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate went down slightly at 4.1% in December — a 0.1 percentage point decrease ...

US job growth slowed more than expected in January, but a 4.0% unemployment rate probably will give the Federal Reserve cover ...

State will pay $2.034B to the federal government from the employer-funded unemployment insurance trust fund and $73M in ...

Jobless claims applications ticked up modestly last week, but the total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits rose to their highest level in more than three years. Applications for ...

California's elected officials aren't saying much about how they plan to address festering problems with state unemployment ...

Unemployment, which was expected to hover around ... The higher borrowing costs were widely expected to cause a recession but didn’t. Companies kept hiring, consumers kept spending, and the ...

The settlement saddles the state with a major new cost at a time when budget-writers are grappling with a series of other headaches and the unemployment insurance system already faces fiscal problems.

For example, policies that try to lower unemployment by boosting consumer demand (thereby raising production) can do so only temporarily, and at the cost of higher inflation later. However, policies ...