Sponsored Most US States See Payrolls Gain, Jobless Rate Drop The latest data has shown that recent job growth in the U.S. was broad-based with the majority of states posting an increase in employment and a drop in the jobless rate to open the second quarter, according to Bloomberg. May 23, 2011
Sponsored US Payroll Gain Sends Jobless Rate Lower Hiring by U.S. employers reached the highest level in nine months during February, sending the jobless rate to the lowest level in nearly two years and boosting hopes that the labor market has turned the corner, according to Reuters. March 07, 2011
Sponsored Eurozone Manufacturing Growth Slows, Jobless Rate Slips Factory growth in the 17 countries that share the euro slowed at the end of the first quarter from the decade high posted the month before as the region’s unemployment rate dropped, according to The Wall Street Journal. April 04, 2011
Sponsored US Job Growth Disappoints, Jobless Rate Drops U.S. employers hired fewer workers in the last month of 2010 than had been expected, although despite the weak growth, the unemployment rate fell to the lowest level in a year and a half, according to Reuters. January 10, 2011
Sponsored US Jobless Claims Surge New claims for jobless benefits in the U.S. jumped in the week ending Apr. 9 to the highest level in two months as the country’s economic recovery struggles to keep momentum, according to The Wall Street Journal. April 14, 2011
Sponsored US Jobless Claims Drop Sharply Initial claims for jobless benefits fell by the largest amount in nearly a year in the week ending Jan. 15, reversing a sharp, seasonally affected spike in claims during the previous week, according to Reuters. January 21, 2011
