Posts Tagged ‘unemployment’

New U.S. Unemployment Claims Drop To 421,000

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – New claims for unemployment compensation dropped to 421,000 for the week ending Dec. 4, a decrease of 17,000 claims from the week before, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Not all jobless workers are insured by the unemployment compensation program. The advance [...]

Senate Near Compromise On Bush Tax Cuts, Jobless Benefits

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Senate Republicans signaled willingness on Sunday to a compromise with Democrats about extending unemployment insurance and Bush administration tax cuts. The GOP blocked Democratic attempts the previous day to keep tax breaks for the middle class, arguing that tax cuts for higher-income earners [...]

Unemployment rate rises to 9.8 percent as U.S. hiring slows

WASHINGTON — In a surprising setback, the nation’s unemployment rate climbed to 9.8 percent in November, a seven-month high, as hiring slowed across the economy. View full post on Business Stories

Unemployment Benefits Expire Tuesday

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Two million Americans are set to lose their insurance after jobless claims expire on Tuesday. Lawmakers returned from their Thanksgiving break on Monday without voting on extending them. About 800,000 workers who have been searching for jobs for at least six months will [...]

High Unemployment Stalls Spanish Economic Recovery

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Madrid, Spain (AHN) – Spain’s weak economic recovery stalled in the third quarter, according to data from Spain’s National Statistics Institute. Preliminary figures for the gross domestic product (GDP) from July to September shows it unchanged from Q2. In addition, GDP for the year was only up 0.2 percent [...]

First-Time Jobless Claims Drop 23,000 For Week Ending Oct. 16

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Advance figures for seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims for the week ending Oct. 16 decreased by 23,000 to 452,000, according to the Department of Labor. The previous week’s revised first-time jobless claims averaged 462,250 and the 4-week moving average was 458,000, a decrease [...]

Unemployment Fear Spurs More Britons To Save

AHN News Staff London, England, United Kingdom (AHN) – More Britons are savings larger amounts of money, according to the survey of National Savings & Investments released Monday. The study attributed the growing savings habits of Britons to fears of unemployment. According to the annual savings survey, 52 percent of the country’s population saves money. [...]

Part-Time Student Jobs Cut Britain’s Unemployment Rate

AHN News Staff London, England, United Kingdom (AHN) – Employment in Britain went up by 286,000 for the second quarter of 2010, bringing the country’s unemployment rate down to 7.8 percent. The rise was mainly triggered by a record hike in students getting part-time jobs, according to data from the Office for National Statistics. Because [...]

Internet Money Making Opportunity – Just Lost Your Job and Looking for A Way To Pay The Bills?

With the economy going the way it is, the rate of unemployment is continuing to grow and grow. The worst part about it is that people who have worked hard for years and years are suddenly finding themselves… out of work. As a result many people are more willing to consider an internet money making [...]

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