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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsLast Friday’s report from the Department of Labor was so strong, with more than 200,000 payrolls created in October, that we figured the report had to be riddled with...
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ThinkstockThe unemployment situation in the United States looked relatively good through the first half of the year. The jobless rate dropped to 7.3% in October from 7.9%% at the beginning of the...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe October Employment Situation Report from the Labor Department is showing that the government shutdown had almost no real impact to the private sector jobs market....
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ThinkstockOctober’s jobs report showed a gain of 204,000 people to nonfarm payrolls. That is a pace of 1.5 million job additions for 2013. Many earlier months have been better. The Bureau of Labor...
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ThinkstockIn a tracking survey that estimates the percentage of the U.S. population employed at least 30 hours a week, Gallup reports that the Payroll to Population (P2P) employment rate rose...
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courtesy of Starbucks In a press release Wednesday morning, Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) announced that it plans to hire 10,000 U.S. military veterans and active duty spouses in the next five...
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ThinkstockThis Friday we will get to see the October nonfarm payroll number and unemployment rates from the Labor Department. Unfortunately, the tone is going from bad to worse. Last week a report...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department may be delaying its unemployment report a few days late after the federal government shutdown, but we are still getting to see the weekly...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department may be late this month with the unemployment and nonfarm payrolls report, but the ADP payrolls data is giving a weaker-than-expected look at the jobs market. ADP...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department is back open and is dribbling out its economic reports again. Thursday morning’s report was on weekly jobless claims, and the figure came in as a drop of 12,000...
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ThinkstockThe federal government may have been closed, but the Labor Department did manage to get another weekly jobless claims report out. Due to imbalances in California and elsewhere, we are not...
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ThinkstockPlanned job cuts in the third quarter rose 25% from a year ago. With September jobs cuts up 19% from last year, it represented the fourth month in a row in which job cuts were higher than...
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ThinkstockWhen telecom giant Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU) announced Tuesday morning that it would cut 10,000 jobs and make other changes to cut costs, it could have been predicted that the company...
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ThinkstockNormally the morning of the monthly jobs report, released at 8:30 a.m., is a frenzy of speculation about how many jobs the economy added in the past month and what the national...
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ThinkstockIn a tracking survey that estimates the percentage of the U.S. population employed at least 30 hours a week, Gallup reports that the payroll to population (P2P) employment rate fell from...
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