unemployment

The unemployment rate among black Americans reached 5.5 percent in August—a historic low. That’s down from 6 percent the month before and 0.4 percentage point below the previous record in ...

OTTAWA—Wage growth accelerated last month to its fastest clip in more than decade, according to numbers released Friday from Statistics Canada. The 4.5 ...

U.S. job growth has been the strongest in middle- and high-paying industries in the past nearly two years, ...

The economy added 164,000 jobs in July, keeping unemployment near a 50-year low, while some underlying markers of ...

WASHINGTON—House Democrats’ proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would improve the ...

Americans' dependence on government programs has diminished during the presidency of Donald Trump, most visibly in the shrinking ...

Employers have expanded payrolls by 224,000 jobs in June, marking a surge after a weak May, the Bureau ...

U.S. private employers added 102,000 jobs in June, below economists' expectations, a report by a payrolls processor showed ...

The economy expanded by 75,000 jobs in May, which was much less than expected. But the unemployment rate ...

The Federal Reserve is considering changing its long-held policy of fighting unemployment levels it has considered too low. ...

U.S. job growth continued to increase during the month of April and the overall unemployment rate dropped to ...

Hispanic Americans are enjoying the lowest unemployment on record, 4.2 percent in April, as the economy added 263,000 ...

Americans are increasingly foregoing unemployment benefits as the job market remains strong and the economy shows signs of ...

WASHINGTON—The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits fell to a nearly half-century low last week, a ...

Fewer Americans requested unemployment benefits in the week ending March 17 than economists expected. Based on Labor Department ...

Hispanic unemployment broke another record low in February, the fourth time since June. Neither of the major Spanish-language ...

President Donald Trump's approval rating on his handling of the economy reached the highest point in his presidency, ...

Commentary A perennial source of angst in the United States is concern about job security and job opportunities. ...

WASHINGTON—Optimism within the nation’s business world has reached its highest levels in years, yet this optimism is challenged ...

BEIJING—Downward pressure on the economy will impact China's job market, the state planner warned on Jan. 22, a ...

China’s job market has been devastated by the Sino-U.S. trade war, and the outlook for 2019 isn't looking ...

DONGGUAN/HONG KONG—Wang Zhishen was thrilled when Danish shipper A.P. Moller-Maersk gave him two months' paid leave, relishing the ...

In his 2019 New Year address, China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping used one key word that didn’t appear in ...

Recent rumors about layoffs at some of China’s biggest internet and technology companies have added to Chinese citizens’ ...

The weekly unemployment insurance report released on Dec. 27 shows signs of a strong labor market. The number ...

Fewer Americans asked for unemployment benefits in the week ending Dec. 22 than the week before, underscoring a ...

WASHINGTON—U.S. businesses added a smaller yet still healthy number of jobs in Nov., while the unemployment rate remains ...