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The Senate voted earlier this week to extend unemployment benefits, allowing Sen. Jim Bunning to watch college basketball in peace and the jobless to collect benefits while looking for work. Bunning had been opposing the bill extending benefits for 1.2 million Americans because he wanted the money...

Unemployment is leading to more men cheating on their wives -- the same women who are returning to work so these men will have a bed to sleep in at night. Web sites that help people start affairs are seeing an increase in business during the recession as more men who can't find jobs are looking...

Out of luck and out of jobs as the nation slowly tries to emerge from a recession, many Americans are finding in Conan O'Brien what they can't find elsewhere -- dignity in telling The Man to take a hike. In O'Brien's fight to keep his job as host of "The Tonight Show" and its coveted 11:35 p.m....

Getting a Christmas gift for your unemployed friends or family members can be a difficult decision, especially if they're low on money and have been out of work for awhile. Do you go with a fun gift they'll enjoy, such as an iPod, or something practical to help them in their job search, such as a...

As the Federal Reserve warns that it could be another five or six years before the job market returns to normal, determining if you're unemployed and therefore eligible for unemployment benefits is probably going to affect many more people in the coming years. Determining whether or not you're...

Chances are you know someone who has lost their job since the recession started. The number of unemployed people across America has almost doubled from 7.6 million to 15.1 million since the recession started in December 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the unemployment rate...

You learn a lot of new words looking through a federal Bureau of Labor Statistics report. Along with learning that teenagers are highly unemployed, the recent report describes how "marginally" attached workers to the labor force are faring. Not too well, it turns out. The national unemployment rate...

Which state had the worst unemployment last year? No surprise -- Michigan with an 8.4% unemployment rate. But what is a bit surprising from the recent figures from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics is that Rhode Island was second behind Michigan and its out-of-work auto workers, with 7.8%...

With 11.1 million people out of work, it makes sense that some would either return to college or find a technical school to learn new job skills. CampusExplorer.com, a Web site that helps people search for schools, is seeing some of that market as more people look to retool their careers. In...

The news that the unemployment rate hit a 16-year high, to 7.2% in December, and that 2.6 million jobs were lost in 2008 -- the most since 1945, is bad news that is only going to get worse as 2009 continues. Economists think the unemployment rate could hit 9% or 10% at the end of the...