The United States has experienced 11 recessions since the end of the postwar period in 1948. The federal government has tried various methods over the years to turn around recessions and push back ...
Unemployment rate at 3.8% while job gains well above the 192,000 economists expected for the month Jobless rate down to 3.7% as world’s largest economy grapples with interest rates and American ...
America's unemployment rate crept up to the highest rate in two years last month, despite more jobs being created than expected. The jobless rate rose to 3.9%, up from 3.7% in January, even as ...
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Another 26,000 people may find themselves out of work before the peak in unemployment is reached, forecasters say. March ...
This metric reflects the annual average percentage of the labor force classified as unemployed each month, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate metric is one of ...
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The number of people at work is generally closely related to whether an economy is growing at a reasonable rate Back in the depths the global financial crisis in 2009, the International Labour Office ...
Australia’s unemployment rate has risen ever-so-slightly, the Australian Bureau of Statistics tells us, lifting from 3.7 per cent in February 2024 to 3.8 per cent in March. This gentle cooling of the ...