DOVER – Delaware’s unemployment rate fell only 10 basis points in June, although the state did add jobs and workers over the start of the summer period in a turnaround […]
WILMINGTON — With more states and cities imposing heavier restrictions and difficult winter weeks ahead, President-elect Joe Biden unveiled his economic plan Monday with an estimated 18.6 million new jobs, […]
It’s a good news, sort-of bad news story out of Amazon. The company is adding 150 new jobs at its warehouses in Middletown and New Castle, but will also, for […]
(AP) – U.S. employers extended a streak of solid hiring in May, adding 223,000 jobs and helping lower the unemployment rate to an 18-year low of 3.8 percent. Average hourly […]
Career website ZIPPIA released a ranking of the top ten fastest-growing jobs in Delaware in 2017. The company gathered data from the Delaware Department of Labor and the Bureau of Labor […]
WILMINGTON (AP) — Existing jobs at DuPont’s food safety diagnostics business in Delaware will remain after the unit is sold to Hygiena. The News Journal reports DuPont and Hygiena announced the […]
By Randall Chase, Associated Press DOVER — British-based pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca says it is eliminating about 700 jobs in its U.S. commercial business, including about 120 at its North American […]
FREDERICA – The DE Turf Sports Complex announced Wednesday it has signed its first major tournament. College Connection’s Shooting Star Field Hockey Tournament Showcase will take to the fields Easter […]
By Renee Plaza Special to Delaware Business Times Mike Reath is the general manager of WDEL, a news/talk radio station in Wilmington that was one of the first 100 broadcast […]
In Wilmington, Dover and other communities up and down the state – unemployed young adults who might otherwise be hard at work are instead spending their afternoons on street corners […]
Three daunting issues face the City of Wilmington and Delaware which, if not confronted, will consign each of them to an unending downward spiral of economic and social destruction. They […]
DuPont says it will cut 1,700 jobs in its home state of Delaware but base its future specialty products business here as it prepares for its merger with Dow Chemical. The […]
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Delaware’s June unemployment rate of 5.8% breaks a streak to start 2021 where the state’s rate was above the national average, which sat at 5.9% last month. New weekly unemployment claims in the First State fell to 1,475 in the week ending July 10, continuing a downward trend ever since the state Department of Labor began requiring job search activity for continued benefit payments. About 18,100 people continue to receive assistance, representing a sharp decline from four weeks earlier.