A newly introduced bill in the New York State Senate would extend the length of time unemployed New Yorkers can receive unemployment insurance benefits, a change supporters say would provide ...

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week was unchanged from the week before, a sign that layoffs ...

While weekly layoffs have remained in a historically low range mostly between 200,000 and 250,000 for the past few years, a number of high-profile companies have announced job cuts recently, including ...

A separate report on Thursday from global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas showed U.S.-based employers ...

California has one of the largest unemployment insurance programs in the country, paying out benefits to over a million people.