unemployment

The Biden administration has turned the U.S. labor market into a temporary employment agency for foreigners, leaving American workers behind, and the ...

On Wednesday, the left-leaning British newspaper The Guardian published a Harris poll about what Americans do and don’t know about the economy. It was...

The New York state comptroller reports that the state lost at least $11 billion in unemployment fraud in the first year of the pandemic? How did they ...

Local unemployment figures rose in July, according to preliminary numbers from the state, as the area’s manufacturing sector took a hit from the final...

Area unemployment rates remained low in October, the state Department of Labor reported, either staying flat or dropping further. Cattaraugus County’s...

More local workers were on the job and fewer were collecting unemployment in September than at any point since before the COVID-19 pandemic, the state...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York’s Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund has roughly $9 billion in debt, more than double what the state took four years to repay f...

Local unemployment rates crept up slightly in June, state labor officials reported. Cattaraugus County saw its unemployment rise 0.4 points in June, t...

Local unemployment rates dropped again in April, state Department of Labor officials reported. The unemployment rate in Cattaraugus County dropped by ...

Cattaraugus County saw a slight increase in unemployment rate in February, up 0.1 points to 7.7%. The rate in February 2020 was 6.2%, and peaked in 20...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — New Yorkers who already get unemployment benefits do not need to call the state labor department to get the extra $300 approved by th...

With the first Americans finally getting vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, it might be tempting to believe the end of the pandemic is at hand....

The stakes could not be higher. Food insecurity is rising. Unemployment relief is waning. The strands of a virus-related safety net — holds on utility...

WASHINGTON. — Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle sounded cautiously optimistic Thursday about the prospect of delivering another round of ...

ALBANY — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has managed to visit each of New York’s 62 counties this year even amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s the ...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — The coronavirus pandemic has created historic unemployment, leaving record numbers of families struggling at exactly a time when it i...

Local unemployment is back below 6% across the region for the first time in half a year, the state reports. The New York Department of Labor reported ...

A new study estimates that 325,000 children in New York — with more than 1,400 of them in Cattaraugus and Allegany counties — are newly pushed into po...