In a story reported by the Associated Press, which apparently doesn't like bloggers using or linking to their stories (so I won't), it seems the Senate tried to bring up the unemployment benefits extension bill passed by the House last week, but Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ) blocked the move by objecting to Majority Leader Harry Reid's unanimous consent request.

Unemployment rates came out this morning showing that jobless rate has reached to 5.5 percent. Barack Obama released a statement about the Jobless Report calling is "deeply troubling."

Despite the expectations of post-correction market rally the weaker unemployment report of 49,000 job loss and 5.5 unemployment rate the U.S stock markets point to lower and weaker open this morning comments Alfred E. Goldman, Chief Market Strategist at Wachovia Securities.

Two new studies conducted by researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center point to the negative impact of parental job loss on children’s healthcare and the importance of having continuous health insurance coverage to meet children’s healthcare needs and reduce healthcare disparities.

An RBC Capital Markets economist says the rise in the national jobless rate is no cause for concern.

The U.S. Labor Department reported Friday that non-farm payrolls in the United States fell by 80,000 in March, the largest decline in five years.

The outlook for American workers became cloudier today as new labor market data showed an economy that appears solidly in recession. Jared Bernstein, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute flagged the major developments in today’s Jobs Picture.

The tiny, isolated Himalayan nation of Bhutan is experiencing record economic growth. But some experts are concerned about rising rates of unemployment among the country's youth as a growing migrant workforce takes many of the new jobs.

Twenty-thousand new training places will be available to the unemployed from today as part of a plan to increase Australia's skilled workforce.

The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits rose to a 2 1/2-year high, a sign the slowing economy hinders hiring.

One in five unemployed fails to seek for jobs that the Employment Service Bureau has assigned them to.

The latest unemployment figures are all over the web. The news is bad as according to the Labor Department the job loss is worst in the past five years.