If shutdown ends this week, US economy would suffer $7B loss, $11B for 6-week shutdown, $14B for 8-week stoppage, says ...

The Black unemployment rate has jumped from six percent to 7.5 percent over the past four months, while white unemployment ...

More Americans are out of work than there were this time last year, with certain states seeing unemployment rates well above the national average. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released ...

The Senate, back from its winter recess, is considering reinstating federal unemployment benefits for the 1.3 million who have been out of work for more than six months and who lost them over the ...

The federal government shut down on Oct. 1 after Congress failed to agree on a spending plan. During a shutdown, non-essential government services close and hundreds of thousands of federal workers ...