Virginia's unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5% in the latest preliminary jobs report, Gov. Youngkin announced last week.

As 2025 draws to a close, North Carolina appears on track to finish the year with an unemployment rate that is better than ...

September's unemployment update is the first monthly state-level report from Commerce since the federal government shutdown began Oct. 1 and ended Nov. 13. The report is based on data collected ...

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits jumped last week, but remain in the same historically healthy range of the past few years despite growing concern over the health of the ...

A divided Federal Reserve will meet this week where officials are expected to move forward with another small cut as they ...

The economic distress tier system that NC agencies use to rank counties saw downward movement in places recovering from ...

Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in North Carolina last week compared with the week prior.

Planned layoffs hit the highest level since the first year of the pandemic in 2025 as employers have shed more than 1 million ...

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in more than three years last week, potentially ...

Five western North Carolina counties have moved to a more distressed tier in the North Carolina Department of Commerce's latest economic development rankings.

The North Carolina Department of Commerce ranks counties annually from most to least economically distressed. Some WNC ...