unemployment

Weekly applications have fallen 10 percent since January.

The Labor Department says the four-week average, which smooths out weekly fluctuations, fell 1,250 to 345,250.

The number of people unemployed in Louisiana rose by almost 3,000 from February to above 129,000 in March which is below the nearly 143,00 in March 2012.

The Labor Department announced that the U.S. economy added 157,000 jobs in January. The unemployment rate inched upward by a tenth of a point, to 7.9 percent.

If you’ve recently lost your job, or finally finished your hard-earned degree but have yet to receive that first sweet offer of employment, keep this in mind: Don’t panic. The good—and sort of bad—news is that you’re not alone. The better news is that your situation is not permanent.

The American economy created 155,000 new jobs in December, according to the latest report from the Labor Department. The unemployment rate is 7.8 percent, the same as November.

Despite troubled economic times nationally, Lafayette continues to thrive.

Federal unemployment benefits are set to run out this holiday season for over 2 million Americans out there still looking for work. Their only chance for survival is if Congress decides to extend the deadline for them to file for an extension for those benefits. However, with amendments to the program made already earlier this year, the outcome appears very bleak.

The number of unemployed Louisianians dropped from 154,000 in August to 144,000 in September.

Food stamps were meant to be a help...not a lifestyle choice.

According to a study by the Congressional Research Service, roughly 2,360 millionaires collected unemployment insurance benefits in 2009. The study, titled “Receipt of Unemployment Insurance by Higher-Income Unemployed Workers,” determined that 2 percent of unemployment insurance claims received in 2009 were to millionaires, adding up to nearly $21 million in benefits.

Jobs are always an indication of the economy going up or down.  Given that, the unemployment rate going back up is never a good sign and that is exactly what it did today, heading up from 8.1 percent to 8.2 percent. In addition, in a chart that should scare everyone, Business Insider and Calculatedriskblog...

So unemployment now stands at 8.1 percent.  So that's good, right?  Not according to Obama bundler Roger Altman, who said the report released today was,

When you look deeper, it reminds us we are not out of the woods yet.

Louisiana's unemployment rate reaches 7% but is still trending below the national unemployment rate of 8.3%.

The President and his surrogates are crowing about the rate of unemployment down, but that said, where are the jobs?  Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has released a chart that there is no doubt that the President would have indigestion over...

A great day for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Mark Lasseigne tells you about it on today's Acadiana Business Index

The CBO has released a report putting real unemployment at 15%, which includes those that have not looked for work in a month or those who are underemployed, that would like to work full time but only work part time. Based on that, do you think the economy is improving or not...

Stocks on Wall Street creep higher as the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 45 points. Mark Lasseigne has your stock market report on today's Acadiana Business Index.

With the holidays behind us, you figured this would happen. First-time claims for unemployment insurance in Louisiana have gone up--very significantly. Over 1150 more claims were filed for the week ending Jan. 7 from the previous week.