U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week as layoffs remain at historically low levels. The number of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the government shutdown reaches its 16th day, questions and fears continue to stir as the future remains unclear. For some ...

A wave of companies, including Amazon, Google and Spotify, have announced deep cuts to their head count, leaving former employees without a paycheck. Fortunately, the unemployment insurance program, ...

The total number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the previous week ending Jan. 31 increase by 21,000 to 1.86 ...

Applications for unemployment benefits are seen as representative of U.S. layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market. The four-week average of jobless claims, which ...

This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com. Their work is considered so essential that certain federal employees are required to stay on the job during the U.S. government shutdown, even ...