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May Sees Biggest Jobs Increase Ever Of 2.5 Million As Economy Starts To Recover From Coronavirus
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Nonfarm payrolls in May were expected to decrease by 8.333 million while the unemployment rate was seen rising to 19.5%,... Read more
May's Record Jobs Comeback: Here's Where The Jobs Are In One Chart
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CNBC studied the net change in employment by industry for May based on data from the Labor Department. Read more
The May Unemployment Rate Is Expected To Be Near 20% As Millions More Lost Jobs
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About 8 million Americans lost their jobs in May, on top of the 20.5 million in April, and economists see unemployment p... Read more
Jobless Claims, Total Unemployment Level Worse Than Expected
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First-time claims for unemployment insurance were expected to total 1.775 million last week, according to economists sur... Read more
'The Covid-19 Recession Is Over,' Says Economist Zandi As May Job Losses Not As Bad As Feared
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Finding good news in the loss of another 3 million jobs isn't easy, but the steep drop in private payrolls for May could... Read more
Private Payrolls Decline By 2.76 Million In May, ADP Says, A Much Smaller Drop Than Feared
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The reported total was well below the 8.75 million estimate from economists surveyed by Dow Jones. The reason for the wi... Read more
Unemployment Is Nearing Great Depression Levels. Here's How The Eras Are Similar — And Different
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The unemployment rate is at its highest since the Great Depression. The current situation differs from that of the early... Read more
Weekly Jobless Claims Total 2.981 Million, Bringing Coronavirus Tally To 36.5 Million
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The total 2.981 million new claims for unemployment insurance brought the coronavirus crisis count to nearly 36.5 millio... Read more
New York Has Paid $7.4 Billion In Unemployment Claims To Roughly 1.7 Million Residents, Officials Say
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Roughly 1.8 million residents struggling with unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic have filed claims, roughly si... Read more
US Risking A Second Wave And A Depression, Mark Zandi Warns
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Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics' worries businesses may reopen too soon and create another spike in coronavirus cases. 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 Private Payrolls Drop By 20.2 Million In April, The Worst Job Loss In The History Of ADP Report
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Private payrolls hemorrhaged more than 20 million jobs in April as companies sliced workers amid a shutdown that took mo... Read more
April's Jobs Report Showing Millions Out Of Work Looms Large In The Week Ahead
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In the week ahead, the April jobs report is expected to show the highest unemployment since 1939. 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
GOP's Kevin Brady: Punishing Businesses With Higher Taxes Would Hurt 'blue-collar' Workers
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"I don't think making us less competitive, less attractive, and taking more of what people earn will ultimately be the a... 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
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
ICE Cold: Microsoft's GitHub Wrings Hands Over US Prez's Trump Immigration Ban Plan
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Yeah, about that contract you signed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement... Microsoft-owned code shack, GitHub, wr... Read more
