The official definition of long-term unemployed is those looking for work for six months and longer. In August, the long-term unemployed reached a post-pandemic high of more than 1.9 million.

Finland's monthly unemployment rate rose to a 20-year high of 10% in August, data from Statistics Finland showed on Tuesday, as the Nordic country struggles to stave off a persistent economic ...

Lake and Geauga counties each saw unemployment rates drop more than a full percentage point in August, nearing or beating year-ago levels.

The Chicago Federal Reserve said on Tuesday it had combined government and private data into a new estimate of the unemployment rate that would give policymakers faster-moving, twice monthly updates ...

Not long ago, Casey McLaughlin was executive director of the Yukon Transportation Museum in Whitehorse, but last week she found herself lining up with hundreds of others at a job fair in Ottawa, vying ...

As many small businesses struggle to find and retain qualified workers, several states across the country have implemented government-run systems to pay unemployment to individuals who voluntarily ...

Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine Vermont weekly unemployment claims for the week ending September 20, 2025, to under 200 and to the lowest level of the year. New claims were 186 last week, ...

The D.C. area’s unemployment rate has increased at a significantly higher pace than the rest of the nation’s since January.

Sarah Elfreth announced new legislation Monday that would support essential federal workers who are forced to work during a government shutdown without pay. RELATED: Congressional leaders leave White ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will tell the Labour Party conference: ‘We won’t leave a generation of young people to languish without prospects.’ ...

Rachel Reeves promises paid work, apprenticeships or study for the unemployed under-25s – but questions remain over pay, fairness and impact, writes Sean O’Grady ...

The U.S. Labor Department said on Monday its statistics agency would suspend economic data releases, including the closely watched monthly employment report for September, in the event of a partial ...