More than one million people lost their unemployment benefits this past Saturday, due to the expiration of the emergency program that Congress did not extend.…
A casualty of the current government budget deal was the extension of federal unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed. That means come Dec. 28, 1.3…
Black unemployment remains stubbornly high, at 13.1 percent in October 2013, more than double the rate for Whites. More investment in job-creating infrastructure projects could…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy added 204,000 jobs in October, an unexpected burst of hiring during a month in which the federal government was partially…
The Washington area unemployment rate rose in July to 5.6 percent from 5.5 percent, the Labor Department reported Wednesday, as larger job losses in the federal government…
The Labor Department released its April jobs report Friday morning (May 3), highlighting a slight drop in the overall unemployment rate. With the rate dropping…
King of sarcasm and Commander-in-Chief President Barack Obama (pictured) dismissed questions over his struggles to pass select components of his second-term agenda by telling a…
According to the National Urban League‘s 2013 “State Of Black America” address, while there has been some progress, African Americans are still being hit hard…
African Americans continued to be battered by a high rate of unemployment on the eve of the high-stakes presidential election, as numbers rose in October…
The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent last month, dropping below 8 percent for the first time in nearly four years. The rate fell because more people found work, a trend that could help President Barack Obama as he comes off a disappointing debate against Mitt Romney. The Labor Department said employers added 114,000 […]
