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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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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is, at least as of last look, not expected to release the unemployment situation and the nonfarm payrolls report on Friday due to the...
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ThinkstockBecause the federal government has shut down, there is unlikely to be a formal unemployment report for the month of September from the Labor Department this Friday. That made Wednesday’s...
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ThinkstockWhen you see reports of thousands of layoffs, it has to be a stark reminder that this recovery’s continuation likely will have to depend on the growth and success of small businesses in...
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ThinkstockThe conventional wisdom says that U.S. manufacturing jobs are disappearing. That’s really not arguable. What is arguable is the reason for and the impact of that disappearance on U.S....
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Jon OggIt seems hard to believe if you only listen to the media, but pension plans in America actually may be continuing to improve. A strong stock market, a solid private equity market and strong...
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ThinkstockCalifornia Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that will take the state’s minimum wage to $10 from the current $8 in two stages — $9 an hour next year and $10 in 2016. The decision will...
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ThinkstockMaybe it just feels like it (or looks like it), but the upcoming layoff of 4,500 people at BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) had some company this past week. A number of other firms across...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has long had criticism of its calculations, reporting and even its computer systems. That has been true under all administrations in our lifetimes, and may be true...
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ThinkstockAmong the most common comments about the new Census Bureau data on income, poverty and insurance coverage is that the rich have gotten richer and, at best, the middle and lower classes have...
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ThinkstockThe Conference Board’s Employment Trends Index rose in August to 113.54 from an upwardly revised 112.80 in July. While the number on the surface is small, it should stand out that the...
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ThinkstockNew data from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco about the stubborn presence of part-time workers in the U.S. economy: Part-time work spiked during the recent recession and has...
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ThinkstockThe recession may have ended almost three years ago, but many American workers fell it was only yesterday when the jobless rate rose into double digits and the economy was shedding more...
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