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Unemployment claims at 352,000, fewest since 2008

By theGrio

11:14 AM on 01/19/2012

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits plummeted last week to 352,000, the fewest since April 2008...
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Black unemployment rises as national jobless rate falls to 8.5, lowest in nearly 3 years

By theGrio

9:02 AM on 01/06/2012

(AP) Employers added a net 200,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent, the lowest since February 2009. But black unemployment rose again from 15.5 to 15.8 percent overall and from 39.6 to 42.1 among African-American teens...
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Unemployment rate falls to lowest level in more than two years

By theGrio

8:39 AM on 12/02/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - The unemployment rate fell last month to its lowest level in more than two and a half years, as employers stepped up hiring in response to the slowly improving economy...
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Labor Department accuses Cargill of discrimination

By theGrio

4:55 PM on 11/29/2011

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Labor officials have moved to cut off federal contracts held by one of the nation's largest meatpackers, saying it discriminated against women and non-Asians....
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Employers post most job openings in 3 years

By theGrio

12:29 PM on 11/08/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Labor Department says companies and governments posted 3.35 million job openings...
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80,000 jobs added in Oct., black unemployment dips to 15 percent

By theGrio

8:46 AM on 11/04/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - The report suggests that President Barack Obama will likely face the voters with the highest unemployment rate of any postwar president...
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Unemployment falls in 75 percent of US cities

By theGrio

11:59 AM on 11/02/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - Unemployment rates fell in about three-quarters of large U.S. cities in September, a sign that the nation's modest job gains that month occurred across most of the country...
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103,000 new jobs in September; black unemployment dips

By theGrio

8:43 AM on 10/07/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - African American unemployment dropped from 16.7 percent to 16 percent and black teen joblessness dipped slightly from 46.5 to 44.2 percent...
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Jobless claims fall to lowest level in 5 months

By theGrio

9:01 AM on 09/29/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply last week, an encouraging sign that layoffs are easing...
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Black unemployment rate dips, economy adds 117K jobs

By theGrio

8:31 AM on 08/05/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hiring picked up slightly in the U.S. in July and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.1 percent, an optimistic sign after the worst day on Wall Street in nearly three years...
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Economy slows as unemployment rate ticks up

By theGrio

8:47 AM on 06/03/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Labor Department report offered startling evidence that the U.S. economy is slowing, hampered by high gas prices and natural disasters in Japan...
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Job openings rise to highest level since Sept. '08

By theGrio

11:22 AM on 05/11/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. companies in March advertised the most jobs since the peak of the 2008 financial crisis, a sign that hiring is likely to remain healthy in the months ahead...
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Jobless rate rises slightly for African-Americans, hits 16 percent

By theGrio

12:21 PM on 05/06/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - Private employers shrugged off high gas prices and created 268,000 jobs -- the most since February 2006...
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Labor Dept. honors 1968 Memphis sanitation strikers

By theGrio

5:14 PM on 04/29/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - The strike was the scene of Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign before an assassin's bullet took his life...
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US unemployment rate falls to 8.8 percent

By theGrio

8:39 AM on 04/01/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - However, unemployment actually rose slightly for African-Americans, hitting 15.5 percent...
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Fast growth in service sector hints at more hiring

By theGrio

12:17 PM on 02/03/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. service sector, which employs nearly 90 percent of America's work force, grew in January at the fastest pace in five years...
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Unemployment falls to 9.4 percent, hiring up

By theGrio

9:49 AM on 01/07/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Labor Department says employers added 103,000 jobs in December, an improvement from November but far below most analysts' expectations...
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Rebound? Jobless claims fall sharply to 4-month low

By theGrio

9:33 AM on 11/10/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Fewer people in the U.S. applied for unemployment aid last week, the third drop in four weeks and evidence that the job market is showing signs of life...
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Employers add 151K jobs, African-American unemployment dips slightly

By theGrio

9:16 AM on 11/05/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - The unemployment rate, measured by a separate survey of households, remained stuck at 9.6 percent for the third straight month...
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Backslide? Applications for jobless aid rise sharply

By theGrio

1:57 PM on 11/04/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - A gain of 60,000 jobs is far below the 200,000 jobs a month needed to keep up with population growth and to help get some of the 15 million unemployed back to work...
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