The Senate confirmed Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as Labor secretary in a 68-29 vote on Monday, according to local media.Walsh will head the Labor Department, at a time the pandemic has left millions une
Thousands of people marched in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires Thursday to demand food aid as the economy battles the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.They marched under the banner of organizatio
01:49 COVID-19 has forced millions of unemployed Americans to make impossible choices to make ends meet.And they’re facing even harder times as lawmakers wrangle over a second huge sti
The New Development Bank of the BRICS group of leading emerging economies will lend Brazil 1 billion U.S. dollars to help combat the economic damage from the COVID-19 crisis, the institution said on
01:26 After a few weeks of a promising recovery, the U.S. economy is again under pressure.With the resurgence of COVID-19, some states are locking down again.The labor market rally is
Israel's Ministry of Health has reported 1,962 new coronavirus cases on Monday, bringing the total cases to 40,632. This is the highest daily figure since the outbreak
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said on Tuesday that it is necessary to "control the growth of unemployment and reactivate the economy so that jobs can be gene
04:24 About 15,000 vulnerable families in Qom, Iran have received financial support from a local charity called People's Relief Headquarters during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the organ
About 2.1 million Americans filed new unemployment claims in the last week, the U.S. Department of Labor reported. The latest U.S. jobless numbers bring the total unemployed since mid-March to
The Japanese government is considering a coronavirus relief package of over 100 trillion yen (929 billion U.S. dollars) as a way to support companies and employees severely hit by COVID-19, the Ni
U.S. employers cut a staggering 20.5 million jobs in April, and the unemployment rate soared to 14.7 percent, as COVID-19 continues to ravage the economy, the U.S. Bure
02:32 E-commerce giantAmazon announced the creation of 1,000 jobs in Colombia.Asthe countryworries about its economy during the coronavirus pandemic, are online service jobsin tech a l
Macao's general unemployment rate for the first quarter increased by 0.2 percentage points to 2.1 percent from the previous period from December 2019 to February 2020,
The number of coronavirus deaths in Israel rose Sunday from 199 to 201, the state's Ministry of Health said. The two new victims are 90-year-old Ahmad Nama, former may
A total of 324 people in Israel tested positive for the COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 2,693, the Israeli Ministry of Health said
China will expand the number of postgraduate students to be enrolled on courses, as well as the number of undergraduate students from those who have graduated from juni
The Finnish government is persuading those without jobs to consider becoming self-employed.Labor Minister Jari Lindstrom has said the government would both reduce unemployment benefits and make the launch of small businesses easier.