WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy added 146,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008. The government…
African Americans continued to be battered by a high rate of unemployment on the eve of the high-stakes presidential election, as numbers rose in October…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent last month, dropping below 8 percent for the first time in nearly four years and giving President Barack Obama a potential boost with the election a month away. The rate declined from 8.1 percent because the number of people who said they were employed […]
If President Obama were hoping for a quick election-year turnaround in the jobless rate, the Federal Reserve burst his bubble today. The Fed projected unemployment will be at 8.6% at the end of 2012, not much better than the 9.1% registered in September of this year, reports the Wall Street Journal. The projections don’t get remarkably […]
New Jersey’s unemployment rate fell 0.1 percentage point to 9.6 percent in August, with a total of 500 nonfarm jobs added over the month, according to preliminary estimates released by the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development Wednesday. Employment climbed to a seasonally adjusted level of 3,845,600 jobs. The state’s private sector added 3,700 […]
