The Latest Breaking News from Unemployment

Bank of America says a “mild recession” will raise the unemployment rate to 5.5% next year and cool inflation.

A 'wet weekend's work' by NZ's most brilliant economist is being embraced by the world's central banks to help chart a course out of pandemic.

The New York Division of State Government Accountability (DSGA) released the results of an audit of the state’s unemployment insurance system on November 15 that indicated over $11 billion were lost to fraud between April 2020 and March 2021.

New applications for U.S. unemployment insurance benefits fell 4,000 for the week ending November 12 to a seasonally adjusted 222,000. The previous week’s figure was revised up from 225,000 to 226,000. The four-week moving average as of November 12 rose to 221,000 from a revised 219,000 as of the week…

Predators and fraudsters are exploiting vulnerable unemployed Nigerians, and the costs are sometimes deadly.

Photos show the desperate search for scraps left by big diamond operators. But amid rampant poverty and unemployment, zama-zamas see no other way to provide for their families.

Germany's lower and upper houses of parliament passed a welfare reform on Friday that will raise unemployment benefits from the beginning of next year and provide new help to train people who are out of work.

German lawmakers have agreed a welfare reform to raise unemployment benefit payments and help train people who are out of work, with a view to addressing a skills shortage in Europe's largest economy.

German lawmakers have agreed a welfare reform to raise unemployment benefits and help train people who are out of work, with a view to addressing a skills shortage in Europe's largest economy.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose the highest level since August but still remained low by historic standards

France is clamping down on unemployment payments, with the government on Monday announcing new rules that it’s hoped will return up to 150,000 people to the workforce early next year.