Unemployment claims are decreasing in some areas while soaring in others, highlighting the currently uneven state of the U.S. labor market.

In this economy, losing a job is especially rough, and if you’re one of the many people laid off this year or collecting unemployment, you’ve probably got a lot on your plate already. But there’s one more thing to add to your plate: Taxes.

Recent college graduates in about a dozen college majors had unemployment rates above 5% in 2023, an analysis from the New York Fed showed.

To help students, James Madison University is providing them with an opportunity to regroup on their career plans and giving them guidance on successfully securing their first job opportunity.

The Georgia Department of Labor recently reported the state’s unemployment rate hit 3.5% in May, its lowest point in a year. But something else dropped, too: the size of the labor force. Georgia’s labor force declined by more than 4,000 in May compared to April. Since May a year ago, the labor force declined by nearly 30,000.

Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in Massachusetts last week compared with the week prior.

The unemployment rate for Gen Z graduates with a master’s degree or higher averaged 5.8% in the first half of 2025, up from just 3% in the same six-month span a year earlier, based on data from the St. Louis Federal Reserve. That’s well above the national unemployment rate of 4.1%.

New weekly unemployment claims in Michigan rose by 130% last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said on July 10.