jobless

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Jobless claims have been stable recently, averaging 210,750 a week over the past month, reinforcing a “low-hire, low-fire” labor market.

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026

Looking ahead: Jobless claims “are consistent with a slow pace of hiring but aren’t sending a signal that hiring conditions have gotten worse,” said Nancy Vanden Houten, lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 24, 2025

Jobless inertia and financial strife breed a cruelty that isn’t dissimilar from the cold strike of an employer maintaining their bottom line, cutting 100 workers with the same callousness that they’d cut 1,000.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2025

Jobless in Seattle: Led by Amazon and Microsoft, companies across Seattle have undergone round after round of layoffs in recent years, shedding tens of thousands of employees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 21, 2025

The God of the Jobless was with him.

From Buttered Side Down: Stories by Ferber, Edna