Job creation slowed last month, though the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in decades. Andrew Soergel Oct. 4, 2019. Powell Signals a Likely Rate Cut in July. GDP growth is slowing and ...

In January 2020, the unemployment rate was 3.6%. 1  That's slightly higher than December's 3.5% rate, the lowest since December 1969. The January rate is at the 3.5% to 4.5% natural rate of unemployment. If unemployment is less than the natural rate, businesses can't find enough workers to keep operating at full capacity.

Initial jobless claims rise 2,000 to 205,000. Thu, Feb 13th 2020. FED'S DALY SAYS HISTORICALLY LOW UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DOES NOT MEAN LABOR MARKET IS HISTORICALLY TIGHT. Mon, Feb 10th 2020. January ...

That month, the unemployment rate increased by 10.3 percentage points to 14.7% making it the highest rate and the largest over-the-month increase since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began record ...

Appearing on CNN's State of the Union, Hasset said that the unemployment rate, which has reached near 14.7 percent amid the COVID-19 pandemic, could be "north of 20 percent" in May if "some ...

Michigan unemployment rate topped 22% in April, likely an all-time high Michigan's jobless rate and the number of unemployment claims filed both hit all-time highs in April. The previous peak was ...

With much of the American economy in self-imposed shutdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, April's colossal surge in unemployment was a historic disaster for workers.

The real jobless picture is coming together. ... Expectations for the April unemployment rate are in the 10% to 15% range. ... she said the worst of the unemployment news may be behind us.