Paul Meyer of Olivette weighed in after spotting the story in Monday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the double whammy the recession is dealing jobless disabled.

The story noted that the national unemployment rate for the general population (9.5 percent) is bad. And the jobless…

St. Louis area business and career consultant Allan Smith raises an interesting point about what many see as a paradox: Vacations for the unemployed.

Posting on his Biz Blog, the Business-plus adviser says he’s seen many clients grapple with “this untimely conundrum” over the…

Fourteen states are already unable to fund claims for unemployment insurance.   And with unemployment at a 25-year high, another 18 states are in danger of falling into the same trap.

To gauge the vulnerability of the 14 million jobless Americans the…

The Associated Press is reporting that the number of Americans filing initial claims for unemployment last week was lower than expected.

It’s “a sign that companies are cutting fewer workers,” the AP writes.

Citing U.S. Labor Department data, the AP said 623,000 seasonally-adjusted claims…

The stock market is up, housing sales are showing a slight improvement, Mizzou earned a spot in the Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight. And Thursday afternoon 697 people showed up at a United Way of Greater St. Louis job fair hoping to tap into…

Missouri’s unemployment rate rose in February, a two-tenths of a percent increase that state officials say comes with a silver lining.

While the overall jobless seasonally-adjusted rate now at 8.3 percent, the Missouri Department of Economic Development reported that the state’s non-farm payroll…

The downturn in the economy continued to be reflected in the region’s jobless rate, with a government survey showing 30,000 more unemployed in December than there were in the last month of 2007.

The figures, released today by the federal Bureau…