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The Latest Breaking News from Unemployment

The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics labour force data due this week is expected to show continued high competition for workers in the jobs market.

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African debt: how to break unequal relationships in financing deals

Africa is facing some impossibly difficult choices when it comes to financing its development. Countries need hundreds of billions of dollars each year to meet their climate, poverty, unemployment and inequality challenges. They cannot meet these needs only from their own resources, grants and concessional sources. They will have to…

The Conversation

Dwindling Economic Opportunities for China’s Youth Fuels Discontent

Without addressing high levels of youth unemployment, China will see a generation of lost youth who may look for disruptive ways to voice their despair.

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Hunter businesses 'downbeat', new survey results show

Businesses in the Hunter region are more concerned than the NSW average when it comes to rising interest rates and energy costs, according to the latest Business Conditions Survey.

Newcastle Herald

Winter session: Government eyes 16 bills, seeks opposition cooperation

NEW DELHI: On the eve of the winter session of Parliament, deputy leader of BJP in Lok Sabha Rajnath Singh sought cooperation from the Opposition for smooth conduct of proceedings even as leaders of various parties said they would seek discussions on issues like unemployment, inflation, border situation with China…

The Times of India

Parliament Winter Session: Opposition Demands Dscussion On Unemployment, Price Rise; Govt Assures Debate On All Matters

On the eve of Winter Session an all-party meeting was held on Tuesday in the Parliament premises where several opposition leaders raised issues like unemployment, price rise to be taken up for discussion in the coming session. Read on for details:

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Minister considering bumper maternity leave payments of potentially €500 a week

Exclusive: This will be part of a move towards a new social welfare system which is moving towards what a source called 'exactly what it says on the tin'-style payments

Irish Mirror

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World’s first job guarantee trial ‘eliminates’ long-term unemployment

One man with 600 failed job applications over three years is now in work

The Independent UK

'Two steps forward, one step back': Experts weigh in on November’s jobs report and Powell's big inflation challenge

Persistent wage growth and a low unemployment rate may be great for Americans, but they're making the Fed's inflation fight that much more challenging.

Fortune

US adds 263,000 jobs in November as unemployment rate stays at 3.7%

Jobs market remains strong even as Fed imposes biggest series of rate rises in decades in effort to tame inflation

The Guardian - US

Losing pandemic benefits meant losing a lifeline for many Black and older people

Two million Californians lost their unemployment benefits last September when four pandemic-era federal programs ended. Some workers scrambled to find jobs, just as employers had hoped. But others, who’d been trying to find steady work for months, had their safety net pulled out from under them.

Tribune News Service

Continuing US jobless claims rise to highest since February

Recurring applications for U.S. unemployment benefits rose to the highest since February, suggesting that Americans who are losing their job are having more trouble finding a new one in a labor market that’s gradually cooling.

Tribune News Service

Applications for jobless benefits declined last week

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits came back down last week and continue to hover around levels suggesting the U.S. labor market has been largely unaffected by the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes

The Independent UK

India PM Modi’s home state Gujarat votes in key regional election

Opinion polls projected BJP to comfortably retain power in the state despite criticism of inflation and unemployment.

Al Jazeera

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The Conversation

Gig platforms help immigrant care workers find jobs, but they are only a temporary solution

For internationally trained health-care professionals faced with unemployment and underemployment in the Canadian labour market, digital platforms offer the possibility of finding jobs in the industry they are trained in.

Irish Mirror

Unemployment rate in Ireland at 20-year record low

Despite the bleak economic forecast, more people are employed in Ireland than ever

Chicago Sun-Times

Pritzker announces bipartisan deal with business and labor to pay off unemployment fund debt: ‘We can find common ground’

Pritzker announced the state had reached a deal via the agreed bill process to contribute $1.8 billion and add $450 million as an interest-free loan to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund. Lawmakers are in Springfield for the fall veto session — and changes to the massive criminal justice package…

Fortune

Bank of America sees inflation falling to this number by the end of next year—but it’ll take a recession to get there

Bank of America says a “mild recession” will raise the unemployment rate to 5.5% next year and cool inflation.

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Post-Covid inflation adds a new twist to the famous Phillips Curve

A 'wet weekend's work' by NZ's most brilliant economist is being embraced by the world's central banks to help chart a course out of pandemic.

Ballotpedia

New York audit indicates over $11 billion in unemployment insurance was stolen during the coronavirus pandemic

The New York Division of State Government Accountability (DSGA) released the results of an audit of the state’s unemployment insurance system on November 15 that indicated over $11 billion were lost to fraud between April 2020 and March 2021.

Ballotpedia

U.S. weekly unemployment insurance claims fall to 222,000

New applications for U.S. unemployment insurance benefits fell 4,000 for the week ending November 12 to a seasonally adjusted 222,000. The previous week’s figure was revised up from 225,000 to 226,000. The four-week moving average as of November 12 rose to 221,000 from a revised 219,000 as of the week…

Al Jazeera

‘I was desperate’: Young job seekers scammed, abused in Nigeria

Predators and fraudsters are exploiting vulnerable unemployed Nigerians, and the costs are sometimes deadly.

WEKU

Diamond diggers in South Africa's deserted mines break the law — and risk their lives

Photos show the desperate search for scraps left by big diamond operators. But amid rampant poverty and unemployment, zama-zamas see no other way to provide for their families.

Reuters

German parliament passes welfare reform to boost benefits and training

Germany's lower and upper houses of parliament passed a welfare reform on Friday that will raise unemployment benefits from the beginning of next year and provide new help to train people who are out of work.

Reuters

Factbox-Germany's welfare reform plan

German lawmakers have agreed a welfare reform to raise unemployment benefit payments and help train people who are out of work, with a view to addressing a skills shortage in Europe's largest economy.

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