Labor Department

A federal judge in Kentucky issued an injunction Monday against the Biden Administration’s expanded protections for farmworkers who enter the country on H-2A visas.

Nearly 3 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week, the Labor Department says. It's the latest grim sign of the economic damage from the coronavirus crisis.

U.S. employers shed a record number of jobs in April, as the unemployment rate climbed to the highest since the Great Depression. The coronavirus crisis has locked down much of the economy.