…2020, Georgia paid out $220 million in unemployment benefits and just shy of what was paid out all of 2019 ($297 million). Forty percent of the unemployment benefit paid went…

Overall, the November report was good. Unemployment was up 1 tenth. Participation Rate dropped a tenth. PR has been hovering about the same for months. What you are looking at…

…percent of a percent) in the unemployment rate. Since last autumn the unemployment rate was 4.1% or 4.2%: this forecasts a rate of 4.3% or 4.4% for September. Which, as…

…of private-sector real wage growth is half as fast as it was three months ago. Layoffs remain low and regular state unemployment insurance claims aren’t rising, but federal unemployment insurance…

…of beers. ~~~~~~~ “Jobless claims continue to paint a much more positive picture than the unemployment rate” The return to normalcy in jobless claims after a skewed reading for Thanksgiving…

…their unemployment compensation. It would severely curtail the total number of weeks for which federal unemployment assistance is available–moving to a 59-week limit from a 99-week limit. Methinks I see…

by Mark Provost re-posted from Economic Populist with permission of author Corporate Profits Soaring Thanks to Record Unemployment In a January 2009 ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos, then President-elect Barack…

…Eurostat press release, The euro area1 (EA16) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 10.1% in November 2010, unchanged compared with October4. It was 9.9% in November 2009. The EU271 unemployment rate was…

…the high unemployment rate creates. The Atlantic had a story in their March issue about the much broader effects that high unemployment will have on American society. Read more here…

…I was such a one, I haven’t been following German unemployment). The OECD standardized US unemployment rate surpassed the Euro area unemployment rate in August 2009 (warning pdf) (figures for…