More than one million people lost their unemployment benefits this past Saturday, due to the expiration of the emergency program that Congress did not extend.…
The US employment trend showed that employers were hesitant to hire in September during the 16 day government shutdown. However they did add about 148,000 jobs making the outlook strong enough to lower the unemployment rate to 7.2%
It may sound good that North Carolina’s unemployment rate fell from 8.9 percent in July to 8.7 percent in August, but employers in the state are still shedding jobs. According to the state Department of Commerce more than 3,500 jobs were cut during the month of August and more than 409,000 people in the […]
The Labor Department released its April jobs report Friday morning (May 3), highlighting a slight drop in the overall unemployment rate. With the rate dropping…
According to state figures, the unemployment rate dropped in 99 of 100 counties in North Carolina for the month of March. The Triangle’s unemployment rate fell from 7.5 percent in February to 7.1 percent and  Wake County’s March unemployment rate fell to 6.9 percent. Orange County’s 5.6 percent unemployment rate, the lowest in North Carolina. ALSO […]
King of sarcasm and Commander-in-Chief President Barack Obama (pictured) dismissed questions over his struggles to pass select components of his second-term agenda by telling a…
According to the National Urban League‘s 2013 “State Of Black America” address, while there has been some progress, African Americans are still being hit hard…
Some leaders in the community are calling on Gov. McCrory to experience living on the newly proposed unemployment benefit of $350 a week. A bill has been presented to cut unemployment benefits from $535 a week to $350 and will be considered by a house committee. If passed, Rep. Julia Howard says the proposal […]
Good news for unemployment in that the U.S. economy added some 146,000 jobs in November and unemployment fell to 7.7%, the lowest since December 2008. However analyst say the report offers a mixed picture of the ecomony and that unemployment rate fell to a 4 yr. low in November mostly because more people stopped looking […]
The unemployment rate in NC fell to 9.3% in October. A year ago the jobless rate was 10.6%. Also the number of people working climbed 43,699 to nearly 4.3 million in the state… that’s an increase of 95,425 from a year ago.
