Unemployment claims in New York increased 1.72% last week and are up 8.14% from last year, according to WalletHub. The state ...

Gov. Hochul and legislative leaders discuss plans to alleviate New York's unemployment insurance debt, impacting both ...

It’s a tough job market right now for lots of New Yorkers. As Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ...

Governor Hochul and the legislature must commit to using state revenues to alleviate this crushing debt. If they fail to act ...

The overall Long Island unemployment rate rose in February to the highest level in nearly three-and-a-half years.

The New York state budget is likely to be late this year, and it looks like a few issues the governor is pushing for are at the heart of the holdup. Over the course of this week, lawmakers have ...

It’s never a good time to lose your job — but now may be an especially bad time to get laid off in New York. That’s because the state’s unemployment benefit has been frozen for six years, so the ...

Oursler and his staff at the Mon Valley Unemployment Committee have shown over the past 40 years what it means to really care about workers—on the job and off.

Hundreds of New Yorkers have lost their jobs as the new Trump administration has pushed to shrink the federal workforce, causing waves of layoffs in government offices from Long Island to Buffalo.

Unemployment insurance is a program designed to provide temporary financial assistance to workers who lost their jobs through no fault of their own. Each state manages its own program, including ...