The Labor Department said Wednesday that it will not be releasing a full jobs report for October because the 43-day federal government shutdown meant it couldn’t calculate the unemployment rate and so

Surveys were delayed and some cannot be collected at all, officials said, further complicating the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates next month.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics report, in the month of September the unemployment rate stayed roughly the same at 4.4 percent, translating to 7.6 million people. It’s a bump from one year prior, when the rate was 4.1 percent, or 6.9 million people.

More than 1.9 million Americans filed claims for unemployment benefits in mid-October, the highest mark since early August, according to data from the Department of Labor. For the week ending Oct.

The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits stood at a two-month high in mid-October at the time when the Labor Department would have been conducting its survey of U.S. households.

The US economy added 119,000 positions in September, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Thursday.

The Department of Labor said Thursday that 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment claims last week as efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus continue to slow the economy. The new figures mean that about 16 million people have applied for ...

The Georgia Labor Department is embarking on a $46 million modernization effort to overhaul its unemployment insurance system, with plans to launch a new cloud-based platform by Fall 2026.

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – The U.S. Department of Labor reported 15,744 new unemployment claims filed in Tennessee and Virginia last week. According to a report from the department, 7,903 claims were filed in Virginia during the week ending on June 5 ...