A wave of immigration probably contributed to rising unemployment in the past few years. Now a Trump administration crackdown on new arrivals could push the U.S. jobless rate lower. Let's unpack that.

Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Over two-thirds of U.S. metros ended 2024 with higher unemployment compared to a year prior, per recent Labor Department data. Why it matters: The big national unemployment ...

The decades-long decline in Australian interest rates, from 1995 to 2019, has gone hand-in-hand with the rise in house prices, as the next chart shows. Interest rates have risen from 0.1% in 2022 ...

Yesterday’s unemployment data generated plenty of headlines overnight after the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed the country’s unemployment rate for ... said the increase in labour ...

The US labor market showed continued signs of resilience in January as the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell, wages grew more than expected, and December's monthly job gains were revised higher to ...

America’s economy is strong, overdose deaths are falling and crime rates are down. For the second consecutive year murders in ...

In a statement, the Fed said the job market is “solid,” and noted that the unemployment rate “has stabilized at a low level in recent months.” The Fed also appeared to toughen its ...

My trusty spreadsheet, filled with new state job figures that aren’t adjusted for seasonal swings, found that the four-county unemployment rate was ... 2023’s 0.5% increase, but it’s also ...

Conversely, when prices rise too quickly (like in the aftermath of the pandemic), the Fed will raise rates in order to stymie economic activity. The unemployment rate will tend to rise (as has ...

(The Center Square) – The unemployment rate rose slightly in 11 of the 12 metropolitan areas in Wisconsin in December while the rates lowered year over year in seven of those areas. The ...

Police ballistic markers stand near a stroller and a child’s chair at a crime scene in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The number of homicides across the United States declined sharply in 2024, ...

Joblessness is fairly low, but Massachusetts employers are still feeling pressure with the rates they pay to fund unemployment benefits forecast to rise in the coming years. Businesses could face ...