Unemployment claims are decreasing in some areas while soaring in others, highlighting the currently uneven state of the U.S. labor market.

Canada's unemployment rate surprisingly dropped a tick to 6.9% in June as employment increased in wholesale and retail trade and health care and social assistance, data showed on Friday.

Windsor has regained its position as the city with the highest unemployment rate in Canada. New data from Statistics Canada places Windsor's unemployment rate at a seasonally adjusted three month moving average of 11.2 per cent. That's up from 10.8 per cent in May and 9.1 per cent in June of 2024.

Canada’s jobless rate unexpectedly decreased to 6.9 per-cent in June – the first drop in unemployment since January, driven mostly by growth in part-time work.

The Canadian economy added 83,000 jobs in the month of June — the first substantial jump since January — while unemployment fell slightly by 0.1 percentage points, according to Statistics Canada. The vast majority of those jobs were part time, the agency said Friday, with 47,000 positions added in the private sector.

Unemployment rates in two counties that previously had the highest in Western North Carolina declined in May. While over 6,00 remain unemployed in Buncombe County, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data indicates many remain unemployed in the Asheville-area ...

The Georgia Department of Labor recently reported the state’s unemployment rate hit 3.5% in May, its lowest point in a year. But something else dropped, too: the size of the labor force. Georgia’s labor force declined by more than 4,000 in May compared to April. Since May a year ago, the labor force declined by nearly 30,000.

The US job market continues to chug along despite heightened uncertainty about the economy and how President Donald Trump’s tariffs could shake out.

Anthropology and computer engineering are among the top five college majors in the U.S. with highest unemployment rate, a report shows.