The Department of Labor said Thursday initial jobless claims, seasonally adjusted, were 222,000 for the week ending April 19.

U.S. jobless claims reach 242,000 as government downsizing looms. Major companies announce workforce reductions while the ...

Weekly applications for unemployment insurance in the US rose in line with Wall Street's expectations, while continuing claims fell, government data showed Thursday. Initial claims increased 6,000 to ...

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits rose marginally last week, suggesting the labor ...

In the week through April 19 there were 222,000 initial jobless claims, compared with 216,000 a week earlier. Economists had ...

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, suggesting labor market conditions ...

The Vermont Unemployment Trust Fund is well capitalized. As of the most recent data, there was $260.9 million in the Trust ...

The continuing-claims data lag the data on new filings by a week. Economists consider the weekly jobless-claims data one of the timeliest windows into the health of the labor market. So far in ...