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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ben Bernanke says the job market isn't as strong as the steadily declining unemployment rate might suggest....

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that record levels of long-term unemployment will alter the U.S. job market for the worse for the foreseeable future. Bernanke said at a Senate Budget Committee hearing that the natural rate of unemployment -- or the level of unemployment that results when the economy is supporting as many jobs as it can -- has risen from about four percent in ...

Before the Senate Budget Committee, the Federal Reserve chairman continued to defend against criticism of efforts to simultaneously control inflation and unemployment.

ROCKLEDGE, Fla. — The nation’s jobless rate has declined to its lowest level in three years, a fact that has left Jamie Bean, an unemployed air-conditioner repairman, feeling more left out than ever. Bean, 36, lost his job in December. Now he is scrambling to keep up with child-support payments to his wife, who is also unemployed. “As it stands now, I can’t afford to get divorced,” he said, ma...

Youth unemployment is a "time-bomb" set to cost the Exchequer £2.9bn a year from 2013 - the entire annual budget for Jobcentre Plus - and rob the economy of £6.3bn a year in lost output, a study revealed.

Barack Obama has opened up a six-point lead over his nearest Republican rival, boosted by the recovering US economy, falling unemployment and negative reaction to Republican primary contest, a new poll has shown.

In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, President Obama said he deserves a second term, but there is a lot of work yet to be done.

Unemployment is falling in the US, where wealth-creators are applauded, rather than denounced, writes Boris Johnson.

The unemployment report was genuinely good, but there’s a downside: the calls to stop focusing on job creation.

Police have arrested 43 people in Thabong for public violence and looting, which have been linked to unemployment protests and xenophobia.

Sunday Times Editorial: Today the Sunday Times launches Each One, Hire One. The campaign has a simple objective: to get the readers of the Sunday Times to think about what they can do to help alleviate unemployment and give hope to young South Africans.

OKARA - The government should solve the issues of loadshedding of electricity and gas, price hike and unemployment by taking solid measures, a PML-N lawmaker said. Talking to party workers in the Muslim League House here, MPA Mian Yawar Zaman said the state affairs had been deteriorated. “The people are awfully worried about the present situation which is going from bad to worse. The ...

Republicans downplayed news of downward jobless trend, as White House says report is 'encouraging'OPINION: The Bad News Behind January's Jobs ReportWhat the Unemployment Rate Doesn't Measure

THE US created far more jobs than expected in January and the unemployment rate dropped to a near three-year low of 8.3 per cent, delivering a jolt of good news for the global economy and President Barack Obama’s re-election prospects.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to a near three-year low, giving a boost to President Barack Obama.

THE US labor market added 243,000 jobs last month, dropping unemployment to its lowest level in three years.

Despite the fact that her own childhood was so chaotic and cut short, Tiffany wants to provide a better life for her own children, Aaron,...

This year the end of the holidays probably didn't bring the usual stress relief; there are still worries about unemployment, a flailing housing market, and a volatile stock market, all of which may be taking a toll on your health.

US President Barack Obama challenges Congress to keep the economic recovery going as new data shows unemployment is down to its lowest rate in three years.

Unemployment falls to 8.3 per cent, its lowest rate since February 2009, providing boost for President Barack Obama.

Investors have had more than an hour to peruse the January jobs report for blemishes, and they clearly haven’t found many, as shares are trading sharply higher early this morning. With 243,000 jobs added to the economy, including 257,000 in the private sector, the momentum that began with last month’s strong report has continued. The [...]

The US unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 per cent in January as the economy added 243,000 new jobs, far above expectations

The US unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent in January, its lowest level in more than two years, thanks to an unexpected surge in hiring, government data showed Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate dropped to a near three-year low of 8.3 percent, indicating last quarter's growth carried into early 2012.

Good morning from The Oval; it's the first Friday of the month, which means a new report on the issue that could well decide President Obama's ...

The UK economy will shrink by 0.1pc in 2012 and unemployment peak at 9.1pc or nearly three million, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

Britain's economy has entered a mild recession and will shrink in 2012, a leading think-tank said today, urging the government to boost near-term spending to prevent long-term damage from higher unemployment.

Recession, unemployment, doomsday warnings regarding the spread against German bonds... times are tough in the real world version of Italy and Spain, so it's not surprising that soccer is no different. Especially when you throw in UEFA's Financial Fair Play looming ominously on the horizon. While uncertainty still swirls around how it will be implemented, (and, crucially, what the penalties fo...

European stocks rose overnight, bolstered by a bigger-than-expected drop in new US unemployment claims and the prospect of a mega Glencore-Xstrata mining merger.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New claims for unemployment benefits in the United States fell more than expected last week, pointing to more healing in the nation's battered jobs market.

Spain's jobless claims shot up 4% in January from December to 4.59 million, a sign that the euro zone's fourth-largest economy is still shedding jobs at a record rate.

The 2012 race for the White House is well underway. During the numerous debates, campaign speeches and addresses, the five remaining presidentia…

Hong Kong's financial chief John Tsang Wednesday expects Hong Kong's unemployment rate to reverse its downtrend as the economy slows down.

Unemployment reaches 10.4% in December; growing joblessness in southern Europe a major challenge

The unemployment rate in the eurozone hit a record high of 10.4% at the end of last year, the Eurostat agency says.

BRUSSELS (AP) -- Unemployment in the 17-nation eurozone ended 2011 at 10.4 percent, a new record high for the single currency since its launch at the start of 1999, official figures showed Tuesday....

THOUSANDS of jobs are being offered to Romanian workers despite UK unemployment hitting record high

Earlier this month, UK unemployment hit 8.4 per cent, its highest level since 1994. But official figures show that nine out of ten jobs created in 2010 went to foreign nationals.

Why ending the lost generation 'disaster' matters

The U.S. economy is still not growing nearly fast enough to bring down the unemployment rate and to create more opportunities for the people, writes Rex Nutting.

World needs to create almost 600-million jobs in order to tackle unemployment caused by recession.

Blacks, Hispanics and younger New Yorkers had the hardest time finding a job in the waning months of 2011, according to data released Wednesday by City Comptroller John Liu's office.

Unemployment time series in Spain behave in a chaotic way according to a study at the University of Seville. Such chaos demonstrates the complex and unpredictable nature of the Spanish labour market in the long run. However, short term patterns can be predicted using complex mathematical models.

A 27-YEAR-OLD Moroccan who set himself on fire to protest his unemployment has died from his burns in a Casablanca hospital, his wife says.

A lower unemployment rate isn't enough. Americans need work that pays the bills.Politicians bickering over private equity's impact on jobs and how to bring down the high unemployment rate are entirely missing the point about the crisis facing working Americans. The predicament we face isn't simply that there are too few jobs; it's also that an increasing number of workers don't have the kind of...

by John Vespasian At the time of this writing, newspaper headlines are all tremendously negative. However, if you look beyond the obvious, you will be able to see the seeds of the accelerated economic growth that will take place in the next years. Indeed, in some areas of the world, the economy is stagnating, inflation is rising and unemployment remains high. As a resu...

MGNREGS, which has helped the government deal with poverty and unemployment in other states, has failed miserably in Punjab with hardly one-tenth of the funds meant for the state being utilized.

Wait. Why? Apparently the best way to prove you're employable is to set yourself on fire. Five unemployed Moroccan men set themselves on fire to protest widespread demonstrations over the lack of jobs Thursday. On the whole county's unemployment rate is only 9%, which is similar to the US's current unemployment rate. HOWEVES, it's nearly DOUBLE that [...]

AT ONE point during Thursday’s troika press conference, Istvan Szekely from the European Commission mentioned that a number of the “stakeholders” they met here during their review raised “some very legitimate questions about unemployment, the impact of policies on the most vulnerable and generally income distribution changes . . . as a result of policies.” Presumably, he was referring to the So...

THERE IS no contradiction whatsoever in maintaining both that young people are mostly being driven against their will by unemployment to the emigrant ship, and that, for some, emigration is, as Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has put it, “a free choice of lifestyle”. A charge of complacency or insensitivity, in the face of what, for most, is an agonising choice, might fairly be laid against...

France grapples with its growing unemployment problem

Chicago real estate company Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc. fired a receptionist named Sharon Smiley for violating company policy and working through her lunch break. She had worked for them for ten years. Because she was fired, she was ineligible for unemployment benefits. After a protracted legal battle, she won her benefits claim. After being fired, [...]

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Getting more small companies wired will help their businesses grow, and help their country fight unemployment, officials said Thursday as Google launched a project that makes it easy to showcase South African entrepreneurship on the Internet....

A SPIKE in NSW unemployment figures shows the state is feeling the pressure of the global economic downturn, acting Treasurer Greg Pearce says.

Blasted by the opposition as the man who lost France's triple-A credit rating, President Nicolas Sarkozy said he would use the last three months of his mandate to focus on quelling unemployment and making French companies more competitive.

UK unemployment rose by 118,000 in the three months to November to 2.685 million, official figures show.

In South Africa, where the official unemployment rate is 25 percent, car guarding has proved a powerful draw for young men with little prospect of a formal job.

Iran warned Gulf Arab neighbors on Sunday they would suffer consequences if they raised oil output to replace Iranian crude facing an international ban

ALMOST 4600 Queensland jobs have been given to foreign workers as the state's unemployment climbed to become the nation's worst.

Police fired tear gas on protesters angry over unemployment and housing shortages in a southern Algerian gas town, injuring ten.

As Greece’s economy plunges and unemployment rises, many Greeks are fleeing to the countryside and looking to the nation’s rich agricultural past as a guide to the future.

Job growth accelerated in December and the unemployment rate was the lowest since February 2009, signs of strength for the labor market.

The IMF's Christine Lagarde says the South African economy's biggest threats in 2012 will be unemployment and the eurozone crisis.

Missouri isn't the only state addressing NFL coaching unemployment. All three Florida teams are presently undergoing searches.

Das Deutsche Ärzteblatt meldet heute, dass Kinder aus sozial schwachen Familien kleiner sind als Kinder aus wohlhabenden Familien. Die Meldung beruht auf einer Studie von Jörg Baten von der Universität Tübingen und Andreas Böhm, zum Zeitpunkt der Studie beim Landesgesundheitsamt Brandenburg, heute arbeitet er im Brandenburger Gesundheitsministerium (Baten J, Böhm A (2010): Trends of Children's ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that despite the country's relatively stable economic situation and low unemployment, next year will be more difficult than 2011.

Preliminary statistics showed China created more than 12 million new jobs in cities and towns this year and kept the registered urban unemployment rate below 4.6 percent.

GDP growth will slow next year as Europe’s debt woes reverberate around the world.

Release Time:  For Immediate Release James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:25 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon, everybody.  I know you're all looking forward to spending time with their families over the holidays, but we did have one last piece of business to finish up.  I said it was critical for Congress not to go home...

Congress on Friday approved a two-month renewal of payroll tax cuts for 160 million American workers and unemployment benefits for millions, handing President Barack Obama a convincing victory for his jobs agenda.

President Obama’s victory over House Republicans in their showdown over payroll tax cuts and unemployment aid helped him more politically than substantively.

A disappointing quarter from Oracle seems to blast apart the idea that enterprise tech companies are holding steady. As usual, the markets overreacted.

AUSTRALIA is on the brink of an unemployment catastrophe, with up to 100,000 jobs set to be slashed in the months after this Christmas.

Information technology is reducing the need for certain jobs faster than new ones are being created. The United States faces a protracted unemployment crisis: 6.3 million fewer Americans have jobs than was true at the end of 2007. And yet the country's economic output is higher today than it was before the financial crisis. Where did the jobs go? Several factors, including outsourcing, help exp...

SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people packed a provincial town square to celebrate the first anniversary on Saturday of Tunisia’s democratic revolution in the place where it began, unleashing a tide of popular revolt that has transformed the Arab world. The festive mood in Sidi Bouzid was tempered somewhat, however, by reminders that democratic change in Tunisia has yet t...

A country where youth unemployment is endemic

Unemployment claims fall to lowest level in 3 years last week, wholesale prices rise modestly in November.

Dmitry Glushko, the first Vice President of Sakha Republic (Yakutia), the chairman of the Yakutian department of United Russia Party, sat down for an interview with Pravda.Ru to speak about the achievements of the republic in the field of social policies and the results of the parliamentary elections in Russia

Thousands of teenagers will be able to transfer to a new wave of "studio schools" at the age of 14 to boost their chances of finding a job, it is revealed today.

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Score one for ABC News in the ratings department. Saturday night's GOP debate was the most-watched of the 2012 campaign as an average of 7.6 million viewers tuned in to watch the presidential candidates take on such hot topics as unemployment and immigration. Despite a relatively late start time -- 9 p.m. on the East Coast -- 2.1 million of those viewers were in the key...

US President Barack Obama said he believes unemployment rate will fall below eight percent.

The peripheral euro zone countries, Greece and Italy among them, experienced success in the early days of the euro. Then came a fall from economic grace.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has criticised the Budget for its failure to tackle unemployment and tax corporate profits.

A falling unemployment rate should help the bottom lines of hospitals and their stocks, writes Lazard Capital Markets.

By all rights 2012 ought to be a cakewalk for the GOP Unemployment is pandemic Riot police are confronting protesters in public squares and on college campuses In an epic fail of foresight the Democratic convention will be held in one of the world's banking centers Charlotte North Carolina –...

“The Russian government continued to increase pensions and social benefits throughout the recession. We have minimized unemployment: it is even below pre-crisis levels now. None of the developed economies can boast these achievements.”

by Elizabeth Grossman The US may be fourth on the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) list of countries ranked by per-capita income, but persistently high unemployment has left many of this country's residents in poverty. The past year has seen a record increase in US children enrolled in free school meal programs, and the need is such that some districts are now serving not only lunch b...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Bruce Boudreau isn’t blaming his newfound unemployment on Alex Ovechkin. The Washington Capitals coach spoke publicly Wednesday for the first time since being fired on Monday. Boudreau says he doesn’t believe two-time league MVP Ovechkin “was ever a problem.” He says when Ovechkin’s statistics went down, people were putting “two and two together and they usually end up with fiv...

The public sector strikes, unemployment and tax credits were on the agenda at today's PMQs

INDIA HAS opened up its $450 billion (€340 billion) retail industry to overseas investors amidst opposition concerns over mass unemployment following the near certain entry of firms like Walmart, Tesco and Carrefour into the world’s largest untapped market.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After another fiscal fight next month, U.S. lawmakers are likely to agree to extend payroll tax cuts and emergency unemployment assistance, senior congressional aides said on Tuesday.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) -- Kyle Orton has gone from Jay Cutler's replacement to Tim Tebow's backup to the unemployment line....

Last week saw one of the all-time most viewed Science in the News Daily articles, about the 10 scientific jobs with really low unemployment. Other popular articles discussed why there are so many colors of poisonous frogs and an attack by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla) on "wasteful" research funded by the National Science Foundation. Subscribe now for free daily updates.

THE PM and President Obama both need to get serious about micro-economic reform.

The economic woes in Europe and America have led to anti-capitalist street protests in a somewhat confused movement called Occupy Wall Street. The protests are essentially about inequality. Western economies have stopped growing, and this has led to high unemployment. A society will accept inequality only if it believes it to be fair. This sense of fairness has been damaged after the global fin...

The nation is still recovering from a crushing recession that sent unemployment hovering above nine percent for two straight years The president mindful of soaring deficits is pushing bold action to shore up the nation's balance sheet Cloaking himself in the language of class warfare he calls on a hostile...

The Labor Department reports that employers added 216,000 jobs in March, pushing the unemployment rate down to 8.8%

A new survey finds that as unemployment stabilizes, church giving is rebounding. But there are fears ahead about changes in tax deductions. Do ...

A lot of bloggers are linking to this Dave Schuler post about how bad things are in East Asia.  I certainly don't dispute the facts in the post, but I'm a bit worried about the implicit schadenfreude that's accompanying a lot of the links.  To understand why I'm worried, consider this latest blast of bad economic news from the FT's Geoff Dyer:  Chinese exports dropped 17.5 per cent in ...