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The national unemployment rate in September rose to five percent, as the United States economy added only about 156,000 jobs, according to statistics released by the Labor Department on Friday.

President Barack Obama’s first economics deputy says current US. economic policies would leave one-third of working-age men unemployed in 2051. Roughly 10 percent of American “prime age” men, or 7 million men aged 25 to 54, have dropped out of the nation’s workforce of 150 million. They are not trying to get jobs and are unemployed because of policy decisions, not because of technology.

The continuing weakness of the U.S. manufacturing sector and weak job growth are caused by “Clinton globalist policies,” said a Friday statement from Curtis Ellis, a senior economic adviser for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

The United States labor force participation rate rose by 58,000 in August, according to statistics released by the Labor Department, leaving more than 94 million Americans out of the workforce.

Federal data released Aug. 9 shows that Americans’ wages are dropping again, seven years after President Barack Obama declared the economy had recovered from the property-bubble — and three months before the 2016 election.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 94,333,000 Americans were neither employed nor had made an effort to find work in July — down 184,000 compared to the month prior.

The Trump campaign is right that the 4.9 percent headline unemployment rate, touted by the Obama Administration, is misleading. Joblessness is substantially worse and not likely to get better if Hillary Clinton is elected.

Despite a forecast of 160,000 new jobs, the Obama Department of Labor announced that job creation in May plunged to 38,000, the worst monthly performance in 6 years.

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump responded to the jobs report released on Friday, calling it a ‘bombshell.’

The BLS reports that last month 94,708,000 Americans were neither employed nor made an effort to find employment — due to discouragement, retirement, education, or otherwise — last month.

The number of Americans not in the workforce during the month of April increased substantially compared to the previous month — again tipping over the 94 million mark — according to Labor Department data released Friday.

European Union (EU) legislation is costing every household in Britain the equivalent of £4,600 a year, the employment minister Priti Patel has warned. And she said that British businesses are being stifled by Brussels red tape, arguing that setting them

A 18-year-old teen from Houma, Louisiana, has been charged with raping a nine-year-old member of his extended family, police report.

Although the Obama Administration is celebrating the longest consecutive period of unemployment claims under 300,000 since 1973, one major reason claims are low is that a record 93,175,000 mostly younger Americans have been squeezed out of the workforce.

While the economy added jobs and the national unemployment rate was relatively unchanged, the African American unemployment rate remained more than twice as high as the white unemployment rate and nearly double the national unemployment rate, according to Labor Department data released Friday.

The number of Americans not participating in the workforce in March dipped again compared to the previous month but was still higher than it was a year ago, according to Labor Department data released Friday.

Despite the nation’s lowest unemployment rate in eight years, the number of Americans on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – also known as food stamps – is at an all time high.

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) declared, “Yes, thank you, President Obama. We are better off today than we were seven years ago” and argued “real unemployment is close to 10%” during a speech in Minnesota after losing in

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders argued that “real unemployment is close to 10%” during Thursday’s “PBS NewsHour” Democratic presidential debate. Sanders said, “I do believe that in the year 2016, we have to look in terms of public education,

Financial manager Ed Butowsky appeared on Breitbart News Saturday to discuss the latest economic news, criticizing the “complicit media” for slanting its reporting on jobs to favor the Obama Administration.

A study from The University of Chicago revealed that 47 percent of 20 to 24-year-old black males in Chicago were out of school and out of work in 2014.

On Friday, Tunisia imposed a nationwide curfew to cope with increasingly violent demonstrations. As with the so-called “Arab Spring” five years ago, the unrest was triggered by an unemployed youth killing himself.

On Sunday, with Martin Luther King Day right around the corner, George Stephanopoulos of ABC News asked Donald Trump what he would say to Americans, especially African-Americans, who believe Dr. King’s dream has not been achieved.

In a bleak new report, the World Economic Forum (WEF) predicts heavy job losses to automation and robotics over the next four years as technological advances significantly reshape the industrial landscape. The WEF outlines its grim forecast for the labor

In his first weekly radio address since the State of the Union address released on Saturday morning, President Barack Obama vowed to continue his “fight” for “working families,” which he maintained would continue through the of his presidency. Part of

The City of Santa Monica’s City Council voted on Tuesday night to approve a minimum wage ordinance that, if approved when it is presented for a second time in two weeks, would raise minimum wage for most businesses to $15 an hour by the year 2020.

While the national unemployment rate remained at 5 percent in December, the unemployment rate continued to vary among demographic groups, according to data released Friday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

While the economy added 292,000 jobs last month, the number of Americans participating in the work force exceeded 94 million for the fifth month in a row, according to new government data released Friday.

In a Tuesday morning interview with radio host Bill Bennett, Paul Ryan defended his omnibus bill’s controversial expansion in the H-2B visa program, which would allow foreign workers to fill blue-collar American jobs, by arguing that if the provision were not included, American companies would be forced to shut their doors.

Foreign-born residents will make up 60 per cent of Sweden’s unemployed by 2017, the country’s employment agency has said. As the country struggles to deal with record immigration, the Arbetsförmedlingen predicted that unemployment would fall among the native population, but

GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says “it’s a real tragedy” there are more foreign born workers in the United States “when an increasing number of Americans can’t find jobs.”

According to the BLS, the African American unemployment rate remained more than twice as high as the unemployment rate among white workers, which declined from 4.4 percent in October to 4.3 percent in November. African American unemployment increased from 9.2 percent to 9.4 percent from October to November.

While the economy added 211,000 jobs in November, the number of Americans not participating in the work force exceeded 94 million for a fourth month in a row, according to Labor Department data released Friday.

The problem facing Democrats as they roll into the 2016 election cycle is that the economy has improved just enough for the Federal Reserve to kill it with an interest-rate hike.

California employers added 41,200 new jobs in the month of October, as the Golden State’s employment production continues at a 50 percent higher pace than the nation as a whole.

While the number of unemployed foreign-born workers declined last month, the number of unemployed native born workers increased, according to unemployment data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.