#unemployment

#unemployment

Her complaint is that Republicans blocked legislative efforts to raise California's minimum wage, implying that if Republicans really cared about workers, they would support a higher minimum wage. She lists a group of U.S. states that have no state minimum wage law and thus "take advantage" of low-wage workers. Her question to the chairman: "What do the states on that list have in common?" The states are Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.

The December jobs report confirms that 2025 was a blockbuster year of solid job growth thanks to the return President Trump's America First leadership,

Gaza's unemployment rate has reached 80 percent, among the highest in the world, according to the United Nations. After more than two years of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, the daily unbearable churn of mass death and mourning, with homes, hospitals and schools destroyed, the besieged Palestinian territory also faces the fastest and most damaging economic collapse on record. That is according to the United Nations, which says Gaza's unemployment rate has reached 80 percent.

Now I have no work, I can't provide for my family, he told Al Jazeera, adding that he used to work in the infrastructure and farming sectors. I used to work with an axe to open water channels between the trees, plough the soil around them, spray pesticides, and plant tomatoes and cucumbers. I used to work from 7am to 4pm for 4050 shekels [$13-$15] per day.

The GDP number arrived just before Christmas, wrapped like good news. The U.S. economy grew at a 4.3% annual rate in the third quarter, blowing past economists' expectations and delivering the kind of headline that signals strength heading into the new year. Consumers went on an unusually strong spending tear while corporations cinched $166 billion in capital gains. President Donald Trump and his team wasted no time celebrating, taking a victory lap

While this seems like a generous COLA on the surface, the reality is that Cost of Living Adjustments have not done their job in making sure that benefits keep pace with inflation, and the value of benefits has been falling over time. Sadly, the decline has been substantial, with the Senior Citizens League reporting that benefits today are worth around $0.80 on the dollar compared to their buying power in 2010.

In assessing our economy or, really, any economy, you want to know if the economy is growing, that there are enough jobs for people, that people can borrow at reasonable rates and that the dollar you hold today is worth about the same as it did a year ago. If those four metrics are solid, we are good. Using Pareto's 80/20 principle-the idea that 20% of any set of numbers constitutes 80% of the value of the entire set-we

The only reason our Unemployment ticked up to 4.5% is because we are reducing the Government Workforce by numbers that have never been seen before. 100% OF OUR NEW JOBS ARE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR! I could reduce Unemployment to 2% overnight by just hiring people into the Federal Government, even though those Jobs are not necessary. I wish the Fake News would report the 4.5% correctly. What I am doing is the only way to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

When the government shutdown came to an end last month, the much-delayed jobs report for September was finally released, revealing that the unemployment rate had inched up to 4.4%-the highest it had been in four years. Amid a tough job market and economic uncertainty, it's little surprise that unemployment is on the rise again. In the latest jobs dispatch that was published today, unemployment had ticked up to 4.6% for the month of November. But it's a specific segment of the workforce that is most acutely feeling the effects of this spike in unemployment:

The United States gained a decent 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October as federal workers departed after cutbacks by the Trump administration, the government said in delayed reports. The unemployment rate rose to 4.6%, highest since 2021. Both the October and November job creation numbers, released Tuesday by the Labor Department, were late because of the 43-day federal government shutdown. The November job gains came in higher than the 40,000 economists had forecast.

It reflects what businesses tell us they are less confident about hiring staff due to sky-high employment costs and a tidal wave of new employment legislation coming down the track. While there has been some easing of cost pressures - with average earnings including bonuses slowing to 4.7 per cent in the three months to October - labour costs remain a challenge.

I am employed full-time. My husband is currently unemployed, after being laid off from his tech job. I'm the only one making ends meet and sometimes, I can't. I feel very frustrated by my husband's lack of "get up and go." He has been unemployed for over 15 months. I'm fed up and have threatened divorce a couple of times. Nothing ever changes. We got married when he first lost his job, because he needed insurance. I'm very stressed out and have been getting sick from all the stress.

When we decided to start living together, he said that he will cover the rent, which is about $1,300 a month, and I would pay for groceries and our utilities,

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party and its main regional ally have scored a landslide victory in elections in the eastern state of Bihar, according to results on Friday from the Election Commission of India. The state election was closely watched because it offers an insight into the level of support for the Indian leader and his party.

There is discrimination against older people. The big beef Carl Of course the boats should stop. People are dying in the Channel, that's not a good thing. They should have safe, legal routes and be assessed to see if they have a genuine claim. The current debate has been massively overheated by a vocal, well-funded minority position, and it's taken all the compassion out of it.