The state’s jobless rate rose to 4.6 percent, compared to 3.9 percent a year ago, according to the labor department.

Some consumers are unnerved by plummeting stock prices, a trade war, job cuts, inflation and growing fears of recession and their shrinking retirement account balances.

The Rhode Island unemployment rate increased to 4.6% in January of 2025. It was the highest level since October of 2021.

As investor attention shifts from inflation to an economic slowdown, a potential government shutdown at week's end is looking ...

The recent federal government layoffs and several private-industry layoffs won’t show up in the state’s labor market numbers for two or three months, Vance-Sherman added.

The fundamentals of the U.S. economy are in good shape, with low unemployment and robust growth in recent quarters. But warning signs have been flashing and markets have been sliding amid policy ...

Illinois companies announced 1,666 mass layoffs in February, with more than 4-in-5 impacting workers in Cook County.

After monthly increases in 2024, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported unemployment reached its highest ...

WalletHub published a study listing the 10 happiest cities in America with five of them all being in one state.

Kentucky’s annual unemployment rate for 2024 was 5.1%, according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics (KYSTATS). This is an ...

Oregon’s unemployment rate climbed to 4.4% in January, its highest level in more than three years, even though the state ...

Americans grew more worried about the economic outlook in February even as their expectations of the future path of inflation ...