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Hawaii's unemployment rate dropped significantly since the start of the coronavirus pandemic but was still tied for third-worst in the nation in…
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Hawaii Gov. David Ige said he is working to find out whether the federal government would fully pay for $300 in weekly supplemental unemployment benefits…
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Updated 8/6/20, 4:31 p.m.An unemployed makeup artist with two toddlers and a disabled husband needs help with food and rent. A hotel manager says his…
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The federal government’s $600 per week supplement to unemployment benefits officially expired last week. The benefit injected more than $100 million per…
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US Jobs Surge: Trump Sees Sunshine, Biden 'No Victory Yet'NEW YORK — The U.S. economy just posted its best single-month job gain in history. U.S. unemployment is at one of its worst points since the Great…
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WASHINGTON — U.S. unemployment fell to 11.1% in June as the economy added a solid 4.8 million jobs, the government reported Thursday. But the job-market…
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US Job Market's Modest Improvement May Be StallingUpdated 6/25/20, 8:10 a.m.WASHINGTON — The number of laid-off workers seeking U.S. unemployment aid barely fell last week, and the reopening of small…
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New Jobs Report Diminishes GOP Appetite For More Virus AidWASHINGTON — A stronger than expected jobs report could further scramble an already uncertain picture for passing a fifth and possibly final coronavirus…
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As businesses reopen on Hawai?i Island, unemployed hotel workers are waiting for their chance to get back to work. Several hotels are already taking…
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Updated: 5/27/2020, 1:35 p.m.SEATTLE — The first word Seattle political consultant Dayna Lurie had that someone filed for unemployment benefits in her…