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Presents graphs about New York's regional employment figures as of November 2004. Unemployment rates; New unemployment claims; Employment rates per industry.

Reports that New York City's unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level since September 2001 in the month of August 2004. Decline in the state unemployment rate; Industrial sectors that drove the job growth.

Presents employment figures for June 2004 in New York City. Decline in unemployment rates; Decline in new unemployment claims; Comparison of employment figures between different industries; Help wanted index.

As persistently high unemployment has drained the funds that are used to pay jobless benefits, more than two-thirds of the states expect to raise taxes on businesses this year to replenish them, according to a survey of labor agencies released Wednesday. Unemployment taxes remain low by historical standards: the survey, by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies, found that states have effectively cut the unemployment tax rate on businesses by 64 percent since the unemployment program began collecting taxes from employers in 1938. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the slight increase in the unemployment rate of New York to 5.3 percent in December 2004, from 4.9 percent in November of the same year.

Offers a look at the New York job market as of March 7, 2004. Discussion of the difficulties faced by professionals who became unemployed in the late 1990s and early 2000s; Lack of a career support structure for job seekers; Rates of unemployment in the Web site development sector; Statement that some unemployed New York residents have been forced to search for employment outside their professions; Demoralization of workers who had felt entitled to high salaries and fast career growth.

Reports on the unemployment rate of black men in New York City. Reference to a study by the Community Service Society examining trends in joblessness in the city; Focus on the employment-population ratio; Factors that may have made the problem of joblessness for disadvantaged men worse including welfare reform, high rates of incarceration producing gaps in job history and competition with immigrants for low-skill jobs; Decline of labor force participation among disadvantaged me; Comments made by Mindy Tarlow of the Center for Employment Opportunities; Claim that service jobs are uninterested in hiring black men for jobs that require customer or client contact.

Discusses unemployment in New York City. Ways of computing the demographics of unemployment; Limitations of unemployment surveys, such as the absence of pertinent data and the timeliness of reports based on these surveys; Possibility that the average unemployed person in New York is male.

Focuses on unemployment in New York City as of June, 2002. Efforts to extend unemployment benefits; Increase in the number of people searching for jobs from June, 2001; Inability of many to find new jobs.

Reports the increase in the unemployment rate in New York City in March 2002, according to the New York State Department of Labor.

Reports on the increased unemployment rate in New York City in November 2001.

Reports on the results of a job fair held at Bronx County Building in New York City, New York. Estimated number of potential job candidates; Unemployment rate in Bronx; Jobs offered at the fair.

Reports on the decline of unemployment rate in New York City, New York in April 1999. Comment from analyst Jim Brown; Increase in the number of jobs; Argument raised by the Comptroller's office.