Continued claims rose modestly between the January and February survey ⁠weeks. The jobless rate eased to 4.3% in January from ...

Labor Department deploys specialized "strike team" to California over alleged unemployment fraud and $21 billion in improper ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly $1 billion of COVID-19-era unemployment benefits is sitting unused and ripe for fraud, the Labor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Department of Labor on Thursday revised its seasonally adjusted unemployment number for the week ending Jan. 3 by adding 8,000 ...

Slightly more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as job cuts remain at relatively healthy levels.

California officials who turned a blind eye to unemployment scams — potentially worth tens of billions of dollars during the pandemic — will now be put directly under the microscope of the federal ...

California officials blasted the Trump administration’s plans to launch a full-sale investigation into unemployment fraud as ”purely political” — and blamed lost money on the feds. The US Department ...

The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday expanded eligibility for unemployment benefits to those facing unsafe workplaces, as well as out-of-work parents who had to quit their jobs when schools and ...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer confidence rebounded more than expected in February, but the ...