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Colorado’s unemployment rate fell again in March to the lowest figure since January of 2009. The state’s figure remains well below the national…

After recent reports that were disappointing, Thursday's news was more positive. An estimated 346,000 people filed first-time claims for unemployment insurance, down 42,000 from the week before.

Almost 5 million Americans have been searching for work for at least six months. This week, their plight is getting a bit tougher as the government cuts their unemployment benefits — part of the automatic reductions in federal spending that took effect recently.

Just 88,000 jobs were added to private and public payrolls in March. The jobless rate still edged down to 7.6 percent — but only because nearly half a million fewer people were in the labor force.

Economists said this means progress in the job market, mostly through a reduction in layoffs.

Even in good economic times, new jobs are constantly being created and old jobs are constantly being destroyed.

Host Scott Simon talks with people who have spent months trying to find work about how they are making ends meet.

State labor officials are revising the way they calculate payroll job figures, using a method they hope will paint a more accurate picture of the…

The decline looks like another sign that the labor market is slowly, steadily, improving.

The pace of claims for unemployment insurance changed little. That could be a sign that employers are hiring and firing at about the same rate as they did in 2012.