“Unemployment” on The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of available jobs in the United States jumped in December to near a three-year high, supporting other data that show a brighter outlook for hiring. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are opening sharply higher after the unemployment rate dropped to the lowest in two years. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to a level that signaled a steadily improving job market. The figures came one day before the government is expected to report that January marked another solid month for hiring. (more)

Faced with a shortage of hired hands, Kansas ranchers and farmers are appealing to their state’s secretary of agriculture for a solution. And he says he has one: hiring illegal immigrants. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose last week to a seasonally adjusted 377,000, up from a nearly four-year low the previous week. But the longer-term trend is pointing to a healthier job market. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people seeking unemployment benefits plummeted last week to 352,000, the fewest since April 2008. The decline added to evidence that the job market is strengthening. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers stepped up their hiring in November but pulled back slightly on the number of jobs they advertised. (more)

Unemployment dropped sharply for the least-educated Americans in 2011. (more)

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said former President George W. Bush’s “failed” policies are responsible for the current state of America’s economy. The unemployment rate is currently 8.5 percent. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four painful years after the Great Recession struck and wiped out 8.7 million jobs, the United States may finally be in an elusive pattern known as a virtuous cycle — an escalating loop of hiring and spending. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The job market is looking a little brighter at the start of the new year. (more)

President Barack Obama hasn’t reduced youth unemployment, so his officials are now pressuring companies to let him announce a wave of new summer jobs and internships. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week after three weeks of decline. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders are renewing their call for the Democratic-led Senate to bargain with them and try to end the stalemate over extending a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits. (more)

As unemployment continues to rise in Kenya, the country’s jobseekers are turning to websites hosted in and out of the country for online work, mainly freelance engagements. (more)

Alabama’s unemployment rate fell at a record pace in November amid stepped-up efforts by President Barack Obama’s deputies to frustrate enforcement of the state’s popular new immigration reform. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders agreed on compromise legislation Friday night to extend Social Security payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits for two months while requiring President Barack Obama to accept Republican demands for a swift decision on the fate of an oil pipeline that promises thousands of jobs. (more)

Reports of lower unemployment benefit claims followed an improved November unemployment report, the Labor Department said Thursday. Claims for state unemployment benefits dropped by 19,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 366,000, the lowest level since May 2008. (more)

Back in September when President Obama was arguing for his third stimulus, he pronounced America soft and said we lacked a competitive edge. At the same time, the NFL cognoscenti were declaring Tim Tebow an NFL bust despite being a first-round draft pick. Remarkably, Tim Tebow and the U.S. economy are showing signs of resurgence. (more)

On his Monday radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh had a back-handed compliment for liberal Washington Post blogger and self-proclaimed wonk Ezra Klein, who, to Limbaugh’s surprise, had highlighted that the real U.S. unemployment rate is 11 percent in a blog post on Monday — a number that is bad news for President Barack Obama. (more)