Recent U.S. Department of Labor data reveals subtle differences in unemployment trends between foreign-born and native-born ...

Her expertise is in personal finance and investing, and real estate. The U.S. unemployment rate is released on the first Friday of every month for the preceding month. The current and past ...

New report finds shrinking but still solid jobs numbers and lower unemployment as U.S. central bank monitors economy amid ...

The combination of these factors brings about a long-term average around which the unemployment rate tends to fluctuate, called the natural rate of unemployment (NRU). The term “natural” does not mean ...

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On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the nation's unemployment rate edged down to 4%, versus 4.1% in December. The unemployment rate had been forecast to remain at 4.1% in January ...

Canada’s national unemployment rate was 6.6 per cent in January. Here are the jobless rates last month by province.

“But to keep inflation steady, it is important to keep the unemployment rate as close to the natural rate of unemployment as possible. This is the unemployment rate that would exist if there ...

Nonfarm payrolls were projected to increase by 169,000 in January, according to the Dow Jones consensus forecast.

Buncombe County's unemployment rate dropped more than 3 percentage points in November to 7.2%, according to the N.C.