Colorado Springs unemployment rate in March fell to 9.7 percent, the drop in more than a decade. Even though the news is encouraging, it still means more than 30,000 residents were out of work during the month. The March rate is down from a revised 10.2 percent in February Area payrolls in March grew 0.2 percent [...]

More people applied for unemployment benefits last week, one week after claims had fallen to the lowest level in nearly three years. The big drop a week earlier had occurred largely because bad weather in many parts of the country had kept people from applying for benefits. The Labor Department said Thursday that 410,000 people [...]

Are companies saying no to jobless applicants when there are job openings? After news accounts about the practice and requests from concerned lawmakers, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has jumped in, trying to figure out whether it’s widespread and could violate federal job discrimination laws. Commissioners at an EEOC hearing Wednesday said they are investigating [...]

The number of people applying for unemployment benefits plunged last week to the lowest level in nearly three years, continuing a downward trend that suggests hiring could pick up this year. Applications sank by a seasonally adjusted 36,000 to 383,000, the lowest point since early July 2008, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Some analysts cautioned [...]

The unemployment rate is sinking at the fastest pace in half a century because a surprisingly large number of people say they’re finding work. The decline conflicts with a survey of businesses that showed weak job growth last month. But that survey doesn’t count the self-employed and likely undercounts the nation’s smallest businesses. Also, harsh [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]