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Unemployment
Amid bleak economic projections, Fed votes to keep interest rates near zero
Jun 11, 2020
The Federal Reserve estimated unemployment will be at 9.3% by the end of 2020.
Why was the May unemployment number wrong?
by
Andie Corban
and Kai Ryssdal
Jun 8, 2020
Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal spoke with former BLS Commissioner Erica Groshen about the "misclassification" error.
Recession hit U.S. in February, ending record-long expansion
Jun 8, 2020
A group of economists declared Monday that the longest expansion on record has ended.
Did PPP loans spur the jobs recovery?
by
Justin Ho
Jun 5, 2020
Businesses that received CARES Act loans had to rehire workers to have those loans forgiven. But what happens next for America's job market?
Wall Street zooms higher on news of labor market improvements
Jun 5, 2020
The S&P 500 was up 2.2% after the government said that U.S. employers added 2.5 million workers to their payrolls last month.
Job losses hit hard in Black communities
Jun 5, 2020
Black Americans tend to work in the jobs most affected by the coronavirus shutdowns and are less likely to be able to work from home.
Cities that rely heavily on tourism hit hardest by COVID-19 job losses
Jun 5, 2020
April figures show communities that rely on manufacturing are also hurt by job losses, but they may see improvement more quickly.
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COVID-19 has caused more public school job losses than the entire Great Recession
Jun 4, 2020
Almost 469,000 workers in K-12 public education lost a job in just the month of April.
Weekly jobless claims drop to 1.9 million, as state reopenings slow layoffs
Jun 4, 2020
Rehiring may be offsetting some of the layoffs, but unemployment is still excessively high.
Unemployment on the Blackfeet Reservation was high before the pandemic, and it's only risen
by
Alli Fam
May 28, 2020
"I'd say that unemployment stands at over 60%, and that was before the virus," said Craig Falcon.