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Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged in July at 10.7 percent, the Agency for Workforce Innovation reported Friday.  This represents 987,000 jobless out of a labor force of 9.19 million.   The...

 The unemployment rate in Spain reached 20% in the first quarter, the Spanish government announced Friday, with 4.6 million people out of work in the country. The rate is up from 19% in the previous quarter, and represents the...

 The balance has shifted: More states reported declining unemployment in November than posted increases, according to a government report released Friday. The national unemployment rate improved to 10% last month as joblessness fell in 36...

Nearly half of U.S. states reported drops in their unemployment rates in September from a month earlier, the best showing since June. But job creation was weak in most areas of the country. Unemployment fell in 23 states and Washington, D.C.,...

Unemployment in the 16 countries that use the euro rose to 10 per cent in November for the first time since the single currency was introduced at the start of 1999, official figures showed Friday says AP. Eurostat, the EU's statistics office,...

Statistics Canada tracks unemployment among university and college-aged students who wrap-up school in April and who plan to work during the summer before returning to school in the fall. Their first figures for this summer show that the...

Almost 15 million people in the US are out of work, the unemployment rate it at its highest since the 1980s at 9.5%. According to serial entrepreneur Jeff Hoffman in a Yahoo article, now is the best time to start your own business. Is there...

 More than half of all U.S. states posted lower unemployment rates last month, the government said Friday. A total of 34 states and the District of Columbia reported jobless rate declines in April, according to a monthly report from the...