"I expect that the unemployment rate is likely to inch up slightly by the end of the year from the relatively low 4.3 percent rate recorded in August.

According to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employers added an estimated 254,000 jobs in September, dropping the unemployment rate to 4.1%. NTD speaks to Jeffrey Tucker Founder & President, Brownstone Institute for analysis.

The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits dipped last week, diminishing concerns about the U.S. employment outlook.

High national youth unemployment has put more political pressure on the temporary foreign worker program, which the government says accounts for only about one percent of the national workforce.

The unemployment rate for people with no college education has dropped dramatically to 4 percent, while the unemployment rate for those with some college has risen just as dramatically to 3.8 percent. The trend line here is what is instructive.

This so-called positive unemployment report discusses only the job losses of those who receive unemployment benefits and doesn’t address all those who are unemployed and have stopped looking for a job.

Unemployment rose to 14.7 percent for Canadians aged 15 to 24 in September, Statistics Canada said last Friday. That's a 15-year high outside the pandemic years.

The Supreme Court rules 9–0 that Wisconsin has to give a Catholic charity group an exemption to the state's unemployment tax.

The household survey samples approximately 60,000 households to gather data on the unemployment rate and labor force participation.

Early estimates indicate that the U.S. economy created 110,000 new jobs last month and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3 percent.

Sotomayor wrote that Wisconsin is not the only jurisdiction that exempts religious organizations from paying taxes to cover unemployment compensation programs.

More people said they expect unemployment to be higher in a year, while expectations for pay gains also edged lower. The Fed survey results come alongside harder data showing hiring has slowed.

By comparison, the unemployment rate for their female counterparts was 7 percent, which has also doubled since May.

In the July 2024 jobs report, the unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent, the highest since October 2021, effectively activating the Sahm Rule.

She also began looking into the idea of unemployment insurance. With Roosevelt’s permission, she went to England to study its unemployment insurance program. She returned in October with ideas for an American version of unemployment insurance.

Early estimates suggest the U.S. economy created 110,000 new jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2 percent.

For the week ending Oct. 18, applications for unemployment benefits totaled 232,000, according to the Department of Labor.

"Since December 2013, the long-term unemployment rate dropped 0.5 percentage point, thereby accounting for almost the entire decline in the aggregate unemployment rate.

“The roughly $4.3 billion was intended for states to use for temporary unemployment insurance during the pandemic,” the department said.

The unemployment rate, for instance, remains at 4.3 percent. Other regional central banks maintain their own sets of labor market indicators.

U.S. payrolls climbed less than expected in December, while the unemployment rate came in below market estimates, signaling a U.S. labor market holding steady to finish 2025.

TFWs have been brought into Canada to fill jobs that, even in times of high unemployment, Canadians would not fill. Agricultural workers are an example.

Bekkersdal is part of the Rand West City local municipality, whose website describes the township as being an area characterized by high levels of unemployment and poverty due to a decline in gold mining.

Nonfarm payrolls increased by 143,000 jobs in January, while the unemployment rate was at 4.0 percent.

“I expect that the unemployment rate is likely to inch up slightly,” Jefferson said, while noting that labor market risks were “skewed to the downside.”

Nicole Bachaud, labor economist at ZipRecruiter, expressed concern about what she described as a crisis of long-term unemployment.

Unemployment Premiums: If you are receiving state unemployment benefits after leaving your job, your HSA can be used toward health insurance premiums, including ACA plans.

These sentiments mostly align with the recent data released by Statistics Canada and the Bank of Canada on inflation, unemployment, and business outlook.

The consequences are visible across the Chinese economy: the real estate collapse, runaway local government debt, and record youth unemployment all trace back to the same structural problem.

He pointed to the recent findings of a DOGE survey of unemployment insurance claims, published on Wednesday.