Employment

Tennessee groups and agencies are collaborating throughout April to help formerly incarcerated people and justice-involved individuals — a term some agencies use to describe anyone who has ever been charged with a crime — find jobs and get legal aid.

A new program is aiming to help Kentuckians with substance abuse issues land—and keep—jobs. The effort is called the called the Kentucky...

More than a dozen Kentucky Career Centers around the state are ready to help what they hope will be an influx of job seekers now that f ederal...

Although the overall jobs market is starting to come back, youth unemployment remains stubbornly high, creating a lot of anxiety among the latest class of college and high school seniors.

It’s a quiet, foggy morning on Highway 119 in Cumberland, Kentucky. A railroad track runs along the highway, and here, Sand Hill Bottom Road crosses the…

Kentucky officials say unemployment rates fell in 55 of the state's counties and rose in 51 others between June 2018 and June 2019.The Kentucky Center for…

Kentucky’s latest unemployment figures show a seasonally adjusted rate of 4%. The Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics released the…

The largest increase in jobs in 1 1/2 years was accompanied by a 2.6 percent year-on-year increase in wages, a slowdown from January's pace. The unemployment rate held at 4.1 percent.

U.S. jobs growth has averaged 174,000 per month so far in 2017, compared to an average monthly gain of 187,000 in 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says.

The Labor Department also cut previous estimates for job growth in June and July by 41,000.