WASHINGTON The U.S. unemployment rate edged up 0.2% in February to 3.6%, even as businesses claimed to create a net of 265,000 new jobs that month, including 245,000 in services. Governments said they added 46,000 workers, too.
WASHINGTON (PAI) The U.S. unemployment rate finished 2022 at 3.5% in December, tying its 50-year low, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. That was an 0.2% drop from November and a far cry from the double-digit joblessness at the height the coronavirus-caused depression in 2020-21.
WASHINGTON With the Federal Reserve Board poised to “fight inflation” by raising prime interest rates again driving up the interest costs consumers pay on everything from credit cards to kids’ college loans AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and a panel of pro-worker economists warned policyma.
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WASHINGTON The U.S. jobless rate remained at 3.6% in April, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, as private sector firms claimed to add 406,000 new jobs that month. That put private firms almost at their job levels before the coronavirus-caused depression two years ago.