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The Jobs Recovery Could Be Choppy, With Some Coming Back Quickly And Others Lost Forever

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Construction and manufacturing may be some of the quickest sectors to regain jobs, experts say, but the hospitality indu... Read more

Nearly 600,000 Australians Lose Jobs As Virus Lockdown Bites

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The Treasury has forecast the unemployment rate will reach 10 percent in the June quarter. Read more

A Record 20.5 Million Jobs Were Lost In April As Unemployment Rate Jumps To 14.7%

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Both numbers easily smashed post-World War II era records and help reflect the profound damage done through efforts used... Read more

Fed's James Bullard Says The Jobs Report On Friday Will Be One Of The Worst Ever

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Bullard's comments came minutes before ADP reported that private payrolls shed more than 20 million jobs in April amid c... Read more

US Weekly Jobless Claims Hit 3.84 Million, Topping 30 Million Over The Last 6 Weeks

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Jobless claims for the week ended April 25 came in at the lowest level in a month but bring the rolling six-week total t... Read more

These 25 States Are Already Paying Gig Workers And Self-employed Americans Unemployment

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Half of states are currently paying out unemployment compensation under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, wh... Read more

Millions Can't Access Unemployment Benefits So Actual Job Losses Are Likely Greater Than Data Shows

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The number of Americans who have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic could be even bleaker than official gov... Read more

Some Gig Workers Are Getting $0 In Unemployment Benefits

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Gig workers and other self-employed individuals are trying to make sense of yet another wrinkle in a roundabout process ... Read more

The US Economy Has Wiped Out All The Job Gains Since The Great Recession

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The jobless claims report showed that it took only five weeks for the U.S. economy to erase all the job gains since the ... Read more

US Weekly Jobless Claims Hit 4.4 Million, Bringing 5-week Total To More Than 26 Million

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The number represented a decline of 810,000 from the previous week, but the five-week total has now surpassed all of the... Read more

Another 4.3 Million Workers Expected To Have Filed Unemployment Claims

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About 4.3 million workers are expected to have filed unemployment claims last week, bringing virus-related layoffs to ov... Read more

Weekly Jobless Claims Hit 5.245 Million, Raising Monthly Loss To 22 Million Due To Coronavirus

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The most recent count represented a drop from the previous two weeks but still showed that the damage to the U.S. labor ... Read more

The US Economy Has Erased Nearly All The Job Gains Since The Great Recession

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The jobless claims report showed that it took only four weeks for the U.S. economy to erase all the job gains in the las... Read more

Borrower Requests For Government's Coronavirus Mortgage Bailout Jump 78% In One Week

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As unemployment surges and more Americans struggle to make ends meet, more homeowners are applying for the government's ... Read more

US Weekly Jobless Claims Jump By 6.6 Million And We've Now Lost 10% Of Workforce In Three Weeks

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That brings the total claims over the past three weeks to more than 16 million. Read more

5 Million More Unemployment Claims Expected, But Layoffs Are Now Broader And Could Be More Permanent

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The new claims for weekly unemployment benefits could bring the number of Americans filing to more than 15 million in th... Read more

US Payrolls Plunge 701,000 In March Amid The Start Of A Job Market Collapse

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It was the first decline in payrolls since September 2010 and came close to the May 2009 financial crisis peak of 800,00... Read more

Coronavirus Could Create 'a Generation Of Supersavers' And Reshape The Economy

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A generation of risk-averse supersavers could emerge from the fallout of the coronavirus crisis and potentially reshape ... Read more

US Weekly Jobless Claims Double To 6.6 Million

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First-time claims for unemployment insurance had been expected to total 3.1 million, according to economists surveyed by... Read more

Massive Risks To World Economy As Virus Battle Rages

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The crash will almost certainly be accompanied by a surge in unemployment, especially in countries with weaker worker ri... Read more