Unemployment

For Fadi Achour, the general manager at Delta Hotels in suburban Detroit, September can’t come soon enough. He is operating with less than half his normal staff. Room service and overnight cleaning has been nixed. The restaurant has limited hours and a bare-bones menu.

"Higher than expected" U.S. unemployment in "bumpy labor market recovery," according to Forbes.

During a bizarre, rambling news conference on June 24, which was supposed to be about announcing a bipartisan deal with Republican senators on an infrastructure spending plan, President Joe Biden had some interesting thoughts regarding the labor shortage issue.

WalletHub compared 180 U.S. cities and changes in their unemployment numbers in May of 2021.

Unemployment rate rises to 5.9%

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, while layoffs plunged to a 21-year low in June, suggesting the labor market recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic was gaining traction.

States that are cutting President Joe Biden's expanded unemployment benefits early are seeing a faster decline in jobless claims, according to analysis.

411,000 unemployment claims filed last week

'Nearly beyond dispute that supplemental unemployment benefits are reducing employment'

The number of new applications for unemployment benefits rose 37,000 last week to 412,000, the Labor Department reported on Thursday.