The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits increased slightly last week, suggesting the labor ...

Weekly applications for jobless benefits are considered a proxy for layoffs, and have remained mostly in a range between ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Illinois dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of ...

Keith Sonderling, the new acting director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, plans to steer the agency to ...

Move hailed by conservatives as a victory for local control, while critics warn of severe consequences for federal oversight.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order that calls for closing the Department of Education, prompting mixed ...

We’re trying to do everything that we can do to safeguard Connecticut employees, and that is going to take a very aggressive ...

The Labor and Public Employees Committee approved bills that expose a chasm between Democrats and Republicans over labor ...

Sen. Warren urges Education Secretary Linda McMahon to reinstate Department of Education employees who were critical to the ...

His new executive order aims to start shuttering the agency — which he can’t legally do without Congress. Here’s what’s next.

Under the new administration, President Trump and DOGE leader Elon Musk announced their plan for mass layoffs in several ...

Following a March 14 executive order to scale back the Institute for Museum and Library Services, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling was sworn in as the grant-making agency's leader on ...