Retailers and shipping companies are adding fewer new jobs than they did a year ago. One reason: employers began shopping for seasonal workers earlier than usual, boosting hiring in October. But if holiday retail sales hold up,…
Initial jobless claims fell to the lowest level since July 2008 last week, dropping 34,000 to 407,000 in the week ending Nov. 20, the Department of Labor said Wednesday.
The figures were sharply lower than economists’ forecast of 435,000.
Employers…
Come the end of November, some 2 million jobless workers won’t be able to rely on their unemployment check unless Congress again extends the aid. But with the GOP regaining the House, the odds of that extension just got a lot l…
Initial jobless claims unexpectedly rose 13,000 to 462,000, but continuing claims plunged another 112,000 to 4.4 million, the Labor Department announced Thursday. Some of the decline in continuing claims comes from people who have exhausted their benef…
When DailyFinance first met Candido Gonzalez last December for our “New Homeless” report, the New Yorker had been laid off for two years from his job of 19 years — and living at the Bowery Mission. Today, the father of two fin…