A Michigan-based food distributor plans to lay off 96 employees in Northeast Portland over the next two months as it shuts down local operations.

The Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber on Tuesday launched its skills desk – an initiative to ensure that the expertise needed in the metro’s diverse manufacturing industry is addressed, but also to ...

Experts have identified some potential economic benefits, as well as big risks, from President Donald Trump's mass firing of federal workers.

In the preceding July-September quarter of FY25, the rate of unemployment for people aged 15 years and above in urban areas ...

President Donald Trump’s federal job cuts have coincided with a surge in unemployment claims in Washington, D.C. Nearly 4,000 claims have been filed since January, pushing total filings up 55% over ...

Stats SA released the official unemployment figures for Q4 of 2024, noted that the figure dropped by 0.2 percentage points, ...

Economists have been sounding the alarms that the Fed’s “inclusive” employment strategy may be to blame for staggering ...

As the 2025 spring homebuying season approaches, the long-term costs of a home loan are inching lower even as market headwinds loom large.

The lowest the unemployment rate has ever gone is 2.5% in 1953. Is it possible for the country to get it that low today?

If wages data continues to show softening, the Reserve Bank could be reassured that more interest rate cuts are merited in ...

Despite Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's reassurance that "some green shoots" are starting to show in the economy, including a 50 point cut in the official cash rate expected to be announced later ...

Aside from day-to-day fluctuations, mortgage rates are expected to stay close to 7% for a while. Those rates seem high ...