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Labor Department Won’t Publish Oct. Unemployment Rate
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The U.S. unemployment rate was 4.4% in September, the BLS reported Thursday. That's a bit higher than the 4.3% logged in August and higher than economists’ expectations that unemployment would remain unchanged,
This blog post quantifies impact of demographic shifts and finds that they lowered unemployment rate by approximately 0.4 percentage points over past 30 years. Read more here.
Bipartisan AI jobs bill from Sens. Hawley and Warner would require companies to report AI-related layoffs and hiring to Department of Labor quarterly.
Roughly 350,000 people would be able to keep their overpayments from the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency if the law passes.