13,200 Jobs Added In June In Minnesota
Minnesota's unemployment rate remained relatively steady again in June after adding 13,200 jobs.
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Minnesota's unemployment rate remained relatively steady again in June after adding 13,200 jobs.
Unemployed State workers are scrambling, trying to figure out how they are going to keep a roof over their heads and feed their families. In fact, some feel like they're between a rock and a hard place.
There's a sobering prediction about Minnesota's jobless rate if there's a state government shutdown on July 1.
Minnesota's unemployment rate remained relatively steady in May when private employers added 1,200 jobs.
Minnesota's unemployment rate edged down a tenth of a percentage point to a seasonally adjusted 6.5 percent in April, though the state lost 5,200 jobs -- a decline officials said was largely because of poor weather.
The summer unemployment rate for Minnesota teenagers is expected to remain high.
Lower unemployment, bankruptcies and foreclosures in March reduced the nation's economic stress to its lowest point this year, according to The Associated Press' monthly analysis of conditions around the country.
New figures show Minnesota unemployment edged down a tenth of a percentage point to a seasonally adjusted 6.6 percent in March.
Homelessness is not just an urban problem, as some Twin Cities suburban counties report a striking surge in the number of people without a place to live.
In the Twin Cities, we're used to being on top of lists about quality of life. But Wednesday's headline in the Minneapolis Star Tribune screamed: "Our Black-White Jobless Gap: WORST IN THE NATION." Why?
Lower unemployment and bankruptcies helped reduce the nation's economic stress in January compared with a year earlier, according to The Associated Press' monthly analysis. Still, the figures show the economy has yet to regain full health.
Minnesota's jobless rate fell to 6.7 percent in January, its lowest point since December 2008.
Many people with college degrees are learning their education does not guarantee them a job. So, a record number of grads are choosing the Army as a way to get out of the ranks of the unemployed.
The unemployment rate fell or stayed the same in December in two-thirds of the nation's largest metro areas, fresh evidence that employers are slowly adding jobs.
Minnesota's unemployment rate held steady at 7.1 percent in November, remaining nearly 3 percentage points lower than the national rate and down slightly from the year-ago rate of 7.6 percent, the state Department of Employment and Economic Development reported Thursday.
As unemployment benefits get extended for the nation's jobless, there is one Eden Prairie man who won't need it.
There is bad news Wednesday for about 2 million Americans who are getting extended unemployment checks. Their emergency benefits just got cut-off.
Time is running out for thousands of Minnesotans who are collecting federal emergency unemployment benefits.
Jobless benefits will run out for 2 million people during the holiday season unless they are renewed by a Congress that's focusing more attention on a quarrel over preserving tax cuts for people making more than $200,000 a year.
Minnesota's unemployment rate inched up slightly last month, even as employers added more than 14,000 jobs.
Minnesota's unemployment rate didn't budge from 7 percent last month as employers cut almost 10,000 jobs.
