Surprise Jobless Jump

The number of American workers making initial unemployment claims unexpectedly jumped to its highest level in nine months last week – providing further evidence that the U.S. job market is once again contracting.
New jobless claims jumped to 500,000 for the week ending on August 14, the highest level since November 2009.  Analysts had predicted there [...]

Unemployment Is Hot

Unemployment becomes some women, it turns out.
It’s a trend we first noticed while browsing at Anthropologie, a store not particularly suited to the jobless – except, that is, for its array of stylish aprons.
Aprons are apparently au courant, especially for the legion of women settling into unemployment.
All these newly jobless women are embracing the demands [...]

More Trouble For Sluggish National Economy

AMERICA’S JOBLESS RATE HITS THREE-AND-A-HALF YEAR HIGH
FITSNews – June 6, 2008 – Ten days after it was announced that U.S. consumer confidence had reached a 16-year low, our country’s jobless rate has now hit a three-and-a-half year high. Unemployment for the month of May rose from 5.0 to 5.5 percent, according to Reuters:
Wall [...]