Unemployment

A long-awaited audit found an array of weaknesses at state unemployment agency.

The answer is complicated and depends on how you look at the 2.6% unemployment rate for the overall St. Louis metropolitan area.

Constant and sometimes sudden moves can disrupt military families' finances and cause challenges with their children’s schools and medical care.

In the two years since an Illinois law took effect, more than 1,000 military members and their spouses have been helped with a professional license application in the state.

The governor’s talking points to highlight the state’s economic status cite various sources, and economists say some are more viable than others.

St. Louis-area food pantries are busy stocking shelves for this summer now that Missourians are receiving smaller unemployment checks.

To address the ‘historic’ high call volume, the federal government has given Missouri permission to suspend recertification interviews to receive food stamps.

The U.S. workforce has roughly 2.2 million fewer women in it today than in January. In September alone, 865,000 women left their jobs — four times more than men.

Missouri's unemployment rate dropped to 4.9% last month, but that's in part because individuals exhausted their unemployment benefits and are leaving the workforce.

African Americans in the St. Louis region have found that when the economy sputters, it hits Black people hard. The coronavirus pandemic, which has left more than 18 million Americans unemployed, has made it worse. Just as the virus has shined a spotlight on disparities in the health care system, it’s also highlighted economic disparities.