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New York City's overall unemployment rate dropped to 7 percent in February, down from 7.6 percent in January, but increased for Black workers, Comptroller Brad Lander said Monday.
Initial filings for unemployment benefits in New York dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to ...
The New York Times editorial board wrote in August 2013: "As measured by the federal minimum wage, currently $7.25 an hour, low-paid work in America is lower paid today than at any time in modern memory. If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation or average wages over the past nearly 50 years, it would be about $10 an hour; if it had kept ...
The New York State Banking Department was the oldest bank regulatory agency in the United States. The Department was the primary regulator for state-licensed and state-chartered financial entities, including domestic banks, foreign agencies, branches and representative offices, savings institutions and trust companies, credit unions and other ...
Manhattan's April unemployment rate is higher than New York’s 7.8 percent rate, according to the latest local figures from the BLS. The United States added 559,000 non-farm jobs in May, and the ...
The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that began a major depression (not to be confused with the Great Depression ), which lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages dropped, westward expansion was stalled, unemployment rose, and pessimism abounded. The panic had both domestic and foreign origins.
Long-term unemployment (jobless for 27 weeks or more) increased by 233,000 to 4 million; people who are long-term unemployed account for about 42 percent of all unemployed people in June.
Unemployment Rises As Job Hunters Flood NYC, Study Finds - New York City, NY - A sharp uptick in New York City's unemployment saw the rate rise to 6.6 percent last month, Labor department data show.