The nonprofit Nourishing Hope said it's prepared this year to spend double its annual budget, largely due to an unusually ...

While federal workers impacted by the furlough will be getting retroactive pay for the record 43 days the government was ...

Legislation in Lansing aims to shield some people from having to pay back unemployment benefits they improperly received ...

The Labor Department will release its numbers on September hiring and unemployment next Thursday, a month and a half late, ...

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The government shutdown is over, but economists say we’ll still see its impacts in jobs reports and unemployment data.

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett blamed the job losses on a reduction of economic output during the shutdown.

Thousands of workers are trying to get approved for unemployment compensation to help cover essentials such as food and mortgage payments while they're on unpaid furlough from federal government jobs.

For more than two weeks now during the government shutdown, Imelda Avila-Thomas has been trying in vain to get approved for unemployment compensation to help cover essentials such as food and mortgage ...