Nurses and tractor-trailer drivers remain the skilled jobs Alabama employers are most in-need of, while retail employees are ...

Alabama received 1,462,344 unemployment claims since April of 2020 and 1,108,514 were COVID related, according to the Department of Labor. Yet two years later, as of April 2022, over 12,000 ...

Alabama’s unemployment rate has been a rollercoaster over the last calendar year. The number reached an all-time low of 2.7 percent in late 2019 and early 2020, just a few months before the ...

Photo Smoothies // Shutterstock Counties with the highest unemployment in Alabama. T he first jobs report fully under the new Trump administration showed a softening job market, with the ...

]Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Alabama dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to ...

WASHINGTON – Alabama residents who faced extreme delays in trying to file for unemployment benefits can seek help from state courts, a divided Supreme Court ruled Friday. The justices overturned ...

WASHINGTON − Derek Bateman, an independent shrimper in Alabama, couldn't sell shrimp during the COVID-19 pandemic and filed for unemployment benefits. When his application was denied, Bateman ...

The chart looks important. Starting in 2015, unemployment rates in Alabama and Mississippi declined in perfect unison until mid-2017, when something appeared to change. Alabama’s improvement ...

Alabama comes in at No. 1 on this WalletHub study. Unemployment claims decreased more in Alabama at the end of last month than in any other state. According to a WalletHub study, unemployment ...

MONTGOMERY — A new tool was launched Tuesday to allow some job seekers in Alabama to speed up the claims process for unemployment benefits, according to the state Department of Labor.