The unemployment rate among veterans who served in the U.S. military since September 2001 was 6.1 percent in 2007, compared to the 3.8 percent jobless rate of veterans from all other eras, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Read more

Hawaii and Alaska posted the second largest over-the-month percentage declines in employment (-0.4 percent each) for October, according to the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Arizona and Michigan had larger declines of -0.5 percent each. Read more

U.S. employers took 1,219 mass layoff actions (seasonally adjusted) in June, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Each action involved at least 50 employees; the number of workers involved totaled 127,897 on a seasonally adjusted basis. Read more

According to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report, Hawaii again had the lowest unemployment rate (2.2 percent) of all the states in January. The U.S. average was 4.6 percent. Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and Virginia were the next lowest in unemployment—all under 3 percent. Read more

Although Hawaii experienced the largest over-the-month percentage decline in December employment compared to other states, it still had the lowest jobless rate (2.0 percent) in the nation, according to the latest report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Read more

There were only 19,750 unemployed workers for the whole state in July, for a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 3.0 percent, according to the latest figures released by the Dept. of Labor and Industrial Relations. Read more

The U.S. Department of Labor, Facebook, the National Association of State Workforce Agencies, DirectEmployers Association and the National Association of Colleges and Employers have joined to provide employment resources to job seekers through the use of social networks. Read more