Articles filed under Unemployment
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Salaries get chopped for many Americans who manage to keep jobs
May 30, 2020 6:08 AM - Companies across the U.S. are cutting salaries as they fight to survive the coronavirus, upending a key assumption in modern economics and raising another hurdle to rapid recovery. -
Women have been hit hardest by job losses in the pandemic. And it may only get worse.
May 16, 2020 6:22 AM - Waitresses, day-care workers, hairstylists, hotel maids and dental hygienists. Not only are women overrepresented in some of the hardest-hit industries, such as leisure and hospitality, health care and education, but women -- especially black and Hispanic women -- lost jobs in those sectors at disproportionate rates.
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Millennial Money: Still employed? Focus on savings and debt
May 10, 2020 6:19 AM - "Just because you are employed (now) doesn't mean you are safe a month from now," says Dan Slagle, a certified financial planner.
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Analysis: Here's what to do before you lose your job
May 9, 2020 6:11 AM - Here are some prudent financial steps workers can take now, while they're still gainfully employed, in anticipation of a job loss, furlough or serious reduction in compensation. -
Another 74,000 file first-time unemployment claims in Illinois
May 7, 2020 4:21 PM - Another 3.2 million Americans filed for unemployment during the week ending May 2, including more than 74,476 Illinoisans. -
How the pandemic consumed the labor market
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Coronavirus recession could plunge tens of millions into poverty, new report warns
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Americans' fear of job loss surges to 45-year high, poll shows
Apr 25, 2020 6:10 AM - A quarter of working Americans believe it's "very likely" or "fairly likely" they will lose their job or be laid off in the next 12 months, according to a Gallup poll. That's a 17 percentage-point swing in one year, from matching its lowest reading since 1975 to its highest. -
'Scary time' for American middle class as office jobs disappear
Apr 25, 2020 6:25 AM - A tsunami of job losses, which began among workers in restaurants, hotels and factories, is now reaching the offices of white-collar America -- where analysts and engineers find themselves among the rapidly swelling ranks of the unemployed. -
Another 102K Illinoisans file first-time jobless claims amid COVID-19 pandemic
Apr 24, 2020 8:43 AM - The Illinois Department of Employment Security said Thursday that 4.4 million Americans filed first-time unemployment claims during the week that ended April 18, including 102,936 workers in Illinois.
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