by Associated Press Published: February 3,2011
Tags: unemployment
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits plunged last week, reversing a spike from the previous week largely caused by harsh winter weather. Applications for benefits dropped by 42,000 to a seasonally adjusted 415,000 in the week ending Jan. 29, the Labor Department said Thursday. They had surged in the previous week after snow storms [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 23,2010
Tags: unemployment
Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the second drop in three weeks. The decline was small – applications dropped by 3,000 to 420,000 – but the downward trend is a sign that the job market is slowly healing. Here are the states with the largest changes in unemployment applications, and some of the [...] [...]
by Rob Larimer Published: December 21,2010
Tags: unemployment
Forbes has listed Colorado Springs as one of the worst job markets in the country for this winter. The ranking is based on the quarterly Manpower employment outlook survey. The report said Colorado Springs has a 3-percent employment decline for the first quarter of 2011, based on surveys that said 11 percent of employers plan [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 21,2010
Tags: unemployment, yoga
Some yoga studios are offering their own jobless benefit: free classes. With national unemployment just below 10 percent, $20 yoga classes don’t qualify as necessities for many unemployed people who’ve pruned luxuries from their budgets. So, now, in studios in New York, Columbus, Ohio, and other cities, former managers, laid-off limo drivers and other jobless [...] [...]
by admin Published: December 3,2010
Tags: Colorado business, unemployment
Some Colorado businesses are being asked to pay more to fund the state’s unemployment-insurance fund. The fund ran out of money in June and Colorado is one of at least 41 states borrowing money from the federal government in order to keep issuing unemployment checks. The Denver Post reports that some businesses are facing unemployment [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: November 23,2010
Tags: Colorado Springs, Jobs, unemployment
Unemployment in Colorado Springs increased slightly in October, from 9 percent to 9.2 percent the month before, and it increased a full percentage point from October 2009. The unadjusted rate in the Springs was 8.8 percent, up from 8.7 percent in September of this year, and a sharp rise from the 7.6 percent a year [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 1,2010
Tags: recession, unemployment
An economy growing 2 percent a year might be tolerable in normal times. Today, it’s a near-disaster. A growth rate of 5 percent or higher is needed to put a major dent in the nation’s 9.6 percent unemployment rate. Two reasons why that’s unlikely well into next year and maybe beyond: - Construction – both [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 27,2010
Tags: elections, Obama, unemployment
Economy is destiny for the Democrats and President Barack Obama, who began his campaign week in Rhode Island, where unemployment is measured at 11.5 percent. He has stops planned in Pennsylvania (at 9 percent), Illinois (9.9 percent) and Ohio (10 percent) before Election Day. Just as striking as the jobless figures is the calculation that [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 30,2010
Tags: jobless, recession, unemployment
U.S. economic growth tailed off sharply in the spring and probably isn’t faring any better now. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that gross domestic product – the broadest measure of the economy’s health – expanded at a feeble 1.7 percent annual rate in the April-to-June quarter. The new reading is a notch higher than the [...] [...]
by Rob Larimer Published: September 23,2010
Tags: recession, unemployment
The number of Coloradans filing unemployment benefits claims has dropped to the lowest level in nearly two years. The U.S. Department of Labor said today that the number of Coloradans receiving continued unemployment benefits also fell, to 54,293, down nearly 27 percent from mid-July and at the lowest level seen since January 2009. A total [...] [...]
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