Nearly 16 million people can't find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended.

The Employment Security Commission estimates 15,000 people may have lost extended benefits they were eligible get during the past couple of weeks.

MCA industries is planning to open a new plant in Graniteville.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says lawmakers should look at problems at the Employment Security Commission when they return to ensure more workers don't lose emergency jobless benefits.

The Georgia Department of Labor said Thursday it's the 23rd consecutive month that Georgia's unemployment rate is higher than the national rate

The Georgia Department of Labor says first-time claims for state unemployment insurance benefits jumped by more than 17 percent in September from a year ago, but fell from the August figure.

They came in suits or army fatigues, picking up information and dropping off some of their own, looking for the next step in their careers.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's making his way across the state, talking unemployment. His stops included two places in Aiken benefiting from the stimulus funds he originally opposed.

South Carolina businesses might have to pay more for each employee over the next couple of years to rebuild the state unemployment benefit fund.

Stacks and stacks of applications represent hundreds of people waiting for jobs. One of those papers belongs to Candice Barbre. She's been looking for work for two and a half months.

In Augusta, the number of unemployed workers decreased in August to 24,616, down 1,768 from 26,384 in July.

The Labor Department says initial claims for unemployment insurance dropped to a seasonally adjusted 530,000.

A Georgia Republican is pushing a measure that would require employers to perform background checks on staffers who work inside other people's homes.

South Carolina's unemployment rate dropped for the second month in a row in August, decreasing to 11.5 percent.

Unemployment numbers for August are expected to be released Friday. In July, South Carolina reached 11.8 percent unemployment, well above the national average of 9.4 percent, and rated sixth-highest in the country.

The GreenJackets are looking for a few good people to fill game day positions in the 2008 season.

The Cavalier Homes plant in Millen will shut down next month. Many of the 104 workers there have lost their jobs and the rest will leave in October. Town leaders say tax breaks were offered to the company but other factors were at work in leading to the closing.

Sitel interviews more than 500 people for 200 jobs in Augusta, but can't see all of them because the line are too long. The line stretched throughout the entire complex because there were so many people were at the job fair.

Sitel has announced they will be hiring around 300 people for an expansion at their customer care facility in Augusta.

The Georgia Department of Labor reports that the unemployment rate in metro Augusta did not change from June to July. It stayed at 10.2 percent.

Goodwill Industries will be getting a 1.7 million dollar grant to help convert part of a shopping center on Fury's Ferry and Washington Road into a Goodwill Career Campus.

Georgia's unemployment rate climbed to 10.3 percent in July -- up two-tenths of a percentage point from last month.

There will be a “We’re Hiring” event on Wednesday, August 19 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Augusta.

If you're looking for a job -- here's some news you can use. Walmart is hiring about 275 associates to work at their new store in Grovetown.

Pilgrim's Pride Corp. says it will idle chicken processing plants in Alabama and Georgia that employ almost 1,000 people total.