Unemployment rates fell in nearly all large U.S. cities in April from March, aided by summer hiring on farms and in tourist destinations.
Unemployment rates fell in nearly all large U.S. cities in April from March, aided by summer hiring on farms and in tourist destinations.
The Labor Department says rates fell in 356 of the 372 largest U.S. metro areas. That tops last April, when 339 areas reported declines.
The economy has generated steady job growth for the past five months.
That’s helped lower the national unemployment rate from 9.1 percent in August to 8.1 percent last month.
The Washington Surveying & Rating Bureau, a 100-year-old organization that strives to provide accurate information on property risks to insurance company subscribers, determines comparative classifications for insurance rating purposes.
U.S. homebuilders began work at a slower pace in January than in December. But all of the drop occurred in the volatile area of apartment construction, which sank 24 percent. By contrast, the rate of single-family homebuilding rose 0.8 percent.
Basic Allowance for Housing paid to about one million service members living off base in the United States will rise by an average of 3.8 percent Jan. 1, nearly double the average 2 percent hike of last year.
The rate of foreclosure among outstanding mortgage loans in Tacoma was 3.95 percent in December last year, an increase of 1.77 percentage points compared with December 2011, according to data released Tuesday.
The euro-area jobless rate rose to a record in November as the fiscal crisis and tougher austerity measures deepened Europe’s economic troubles.
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