When Americans lose their jobs, they file for unemployment benefits, and the government has kept track of the number of these filings every week for more than a half-century. Up until very recently, ...

Initial claims rose 5,000 to 210,000. That's the number that will run across financial media today. It's also almost entirely irrelevant. Here's why. The raw, unadjusted claims count actually fell ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits tumbled to their lowest level more than 50 years last week despite a number of economic headwinds including the war in Iran.