unemployment and layoffs

Fourteen Democratic governors have signed a letter drafted by Gov. Martin O'Malley that calls on Congress to extend federal unemployment benefits quickly or risk slowing the nation's economic recovery.

Conaway's views on unemployment benefits and crime are insulting and shortsighted

Howard County's unemployment rate is at its lowest level in five years, County Executive Ken Ulman announced Tuesday.

Congress should extend Federal Unemployment Insurance for the good of the country.

End of unemployment benefits will hit Baltimore hard

Maryland's newest job-training program is part of a national movement to get employers more deeply involved with efforts to develop a skilled workforce — a shift that has gathered steam in the last decade as federal funding for training shrank.

Emergency unemployment benefits will expire Saturday for more than 25,000 out-of-work Marylanders, with thousands more projected to run out of the insurance in the first half of the year unless Congress decides to reverse course and approve an extension.

Welfare recipients gain jobs at Johns Hopkins Hospital, dent the state's unemployment rate

U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez said Congress left more than a million families a "lump of coal in their stocking" when it failed to address expiring federal unemployment benefits, and he joined a chorus of Democrats who are calling on lawmakers to approve a retroactive extension as their first order of business next month.

To understand how unevenly the recession and recovery rippled across Maryland, consider its economic extremes.

Maryland employers added 8,900 jobs in November, largely in the private sector, pushing the state's unemployment rate down to 6.4 percent, the federal government said Friday.

Although modest in scope and punitive to federal workers and the jobless, Congress should approve Murray-Ryan bipartisan budget plan

Congressional negotiators announced a $1.01 trillion budget agreement on Tuesday that would avoid another government shutdown but deliver an additional round of cuts to thousands of federal employees in Maryland.

Plans to lay off 191 employees from the Saks Incorporated Distribution Facility in Aberdeen, announced earlier this month, will end up affecting about 70 percent of the facility's workforce and are raising questions among workers if the facility is heading for a full shutdown.

Saks Inc. warned state regulators Wednesday that it plans to lay off 191 employees in Aberdeen starting Jan. 3.

Columbia spends $5 million on a park while people live on the streets in Baltimore.

Maryland's largest state workers union will ask the General Assembly to undo a Court of Appeals ruling that would erode traditional seniority potections for of thousands of public employees.

Mr. Obama's spending and borrowing are visiting Eurosclerosis on America: slow growth, high youth unemployment and a level of debt that will force presidents in the next decade to dry dock the Navy and stand down the army to pay all the interest and the entitlements he has created.

Nielsen, which acquired Columbia-based Arbitron in September, plans to lay off 333 workers at Arbitron's former headquarters complex, state regulators said Friday.

MedStar Health has shed about 1 percent of its work force at its four Baltimore-area hospitals over the past year, less than the 300 layoffs of at MedStar Washington Hospital Center this week.

Financial planner are fielding anxious questions from federal employees in the wake of the partial government shutdown. The appeal of federal work, besides good benefits, has long been stability — but not so much in the last few years, and the last few months in particular.

Post-military service can be a period of anxiety and uncertainty. So many men and women return and ask themselves: what now? The Labor Department is here to help answer that question with an array of programs designed to clear pathways into the middle class.

The Cecil County man, convicted in a prescription pill case, was due to be sentenced in federal court last spring — until his attorney made an embarrassing admission to the judge: The federal defender's office could not afford to pay for documents the lawyer said he would need to represent his client.

Amazon.com will open a 1 million-square-foot distribution center that could employ 1,000 people at the site of the former General Motors plant in Southeast Baltimore, the company announced Tuesday.

Instead of fighting over imaginary crises, the federal government needs to focus on the real one: the weak economy.

Conservatives have acted destructively and irresponsibly in bringing nation to the brink

Roughly half of Maryland employers will see their unemployment insurance tax drop by about 70 percent next year, the result of the state's rebound from recession, the governor said Wednesday.

Some food pantries and aid programs in Maryland are experiencing an increase in requests for help as the federal government shutdown continues — a jump program officials believe is due partly to federal furloughs.

At least one group of government employees remained busy Monday as the state worked to process more than 16,000 unemployment insurance applications from federal workers in Maryland filed during the first six days of the U.S. government shutdown.