The Department of Labor’s latest unemployment numbers show that initial jobless claims rose slightly in the week ending June 12 (to 472,000 from 460,000), though the four-week floating average was down somewhat, by 500 claims.
These numbers demonstrate that, while some aspects of the job frontier may be improving for Americans, we haven’t quite pulled [...]

While it’s true that the recently released unemployment figures for April seemed, at first glance, to contain good news (they indicated that the jobless rate dropped in 90 percent of urban areas during April), many economic analysts are pointing out that such figures only tell part of the story.
As a recent post at the New [...]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released figures last week indicating that unemployment dropped in 90 percent of U.S. cities in April, compared to March. While the numbers aren’t drastic enough to mean the nation is out of the woods financially, they suggest we’re on a path toward improvement in employment rates.
Here’s a look at the [...]

Anyone who has had the misfortune of trying to find a job in the current market can attest to the difficulties that still remain. Those who are lucky enough to find a job are often shocked to find the salaries lower than they were just a few years ago.
The Wall Street Journal recently described the [...]

One sign that the employment market may be loosening could be the rate at which workers are leaving their jobs not because they were laid off or fired, but because they chose to quit.
A report from the Wall Street Journal notes the increase in employees voluntarily leaving their jobs. According to that report, the number [...]

A recent article from msnbc.com examines the recession-driven phenomenon of older workers displacing the young in the workforce—a reversal of previous decades and a problem that can be a financial disaster to those without a safety net and educational loans to repay.
Regaining Lost Ground
It seems that older Americans who lost some of all of their [...]

The effects of the Great Recession can still be felt throughout much of the country, as this week’s economic news indicates. But don’t worry—if you’re still among the millions who haven’t stopped pinching pennies, there may be some new ways to check your cash flow.
Foreclosure Count to Near 12 Million?
One financial blog has quoted an [...]