Reserve Bank and Treasury had predicted unemployment rate would rise from February’s 3.7% as interest rates biteFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s economy shed 6,600 jobs last month as employers responded to weak demand by trimming staff numbers.The unemployment rate in March was 3.8%, the Australian Bureau of Statistics announced on Thursday, rising from February’s 3.7%.Sign up for Guardian...
Australia’s labour market is still in pretty good shape despite the economy shedding jobs and the unemployment rate edging higher. A more muted result was widely expected in the Australian Bureau Statistics’ March labour force data following a stellar set of numbers in February. The jobless rate in March ticked higher to 3.8 per cent, […]
The decline mirrored a one-tenth percentage point decrease in the national figure last month, from 3.9% to 3.8%.
For the second month in a row, California posted the highest unemployment rate in the country, according to new data for March. And it was one of only two states, the other being Nevada, with a March jobless rate above 5%, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics. On the positive side, data released Friday by the state’s Employment Development Department showed that California’s job growth turned upward last month, though the improvement still lagged behind the national average. California’s jobless...
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Seasonally adjusted unemployment rates continue to increase in Central Oregon, with slight increases in all three Central Oregon counties last month, the Oregon Employment Department reported Tuesday. Total nonfarm employment also increased over the month of March, with marginal increases in each county, the department said. Here's the full report: Crook
The soft landing is still on because spikes in inflation were a blip and the job market isn’t seeing many layoffs, Goldman’s chief economist says.
SALEM, Ore. – Oregon added 1,400 non-farm payroll jobs in March. The sectors with the most gains
And don’t forget to add the state capital gains tax: the Biden combined federal-state rate would exceed 50% in many states President Biden has formally proposed the highest capital gains tax in over 100 years. Here is a direct quote from the Biden 2025 budget proposal: “Together, the proposals would increase the top marginal rate
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The risk for a strong or severe storm returns to the forecast.
A quarter of a million people were out of work in Finland last month, with youth unemployment climbing to 26 percent.
Unemployment jumped from 8.6% to 12.3% among 20-somethings with bachelor's degrees year over year, the BLS reported.