The Latest Breaking News from Unemployment

Australia's jobs market has continued to strengthen, with unemployment remaining at 3.9 per cent last month and underemployment falling to a 14-year low.

Some economists say it will take an economic contraction and higher unemployment to bring inflation down

When Labor leader Anthony Albanese couldn’t quote Australia’s unemployment rate in the first week of the election campaign, many said it didn’t matter: the Australian Bureau of Statistics figure was “meaningless”; “fudged”; “manipulated”; and didn’t count all those who had registered for JobSeeker.

As Kenya faces inflation, unemployment and exorbitant public debt, George Wajackoyah, one of the four presidential candidates in the upcoming August elections, says he wants to get the economy back on track by legalizing cannabis and farming snakes.

The unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.9 per cent in April as 60,600 people joined the workforce, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says.

After the pandemic and now a cost of living crisis, it seems unthinkable that the economic situation could get worse. But experts are pretty certain that the UK economy will flatline in 2023, and some are even murmuring that a recession could happen this year.

Unemployment rise and prospect of new Scottish independence referendum fuel recession fears

Data show rate of joblessness fell to 4.2% in 2020-21, compared with 4.8% earlier

The unemployment rate for those aged 16 and over between February and April this year was 3.2%

Chamber boss: 'There is a major constrain on businesses when it comes to finding the staff they need to fill key jobs'

Analysis: Slow earnings growth and unemployment rise do not mean labour market is collapsing, but they could be a sign