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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department’s report on weekly jobless claims continues to go against many of the headlines we are seeing elsewhere. Last week brought a drop to 323,000, the...
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ThinkstockFor the past four and a half years, teen unemployment has exceeded 20%. As of April 2013, 24.1% of teens seeking jobs were unable to find work, according to a report released this week....
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ThinkstockLast Friday’s unemployment report managed to come in much better than anticipated. Some even may have questioned whether the computers at the Labor Department were making proper...
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ThinkstockUnemployment in Spain has been above 24% for several months, and there is nothing about the nation’s economy that will reverse that. The central government has complained that austerity...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department is out with the April Employment Situation Report, and it is a report that the market will view positively. Some are going to question the...
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ThinkstockThe extent of the jobs crisis extends well beyond the measurements released by the Labor Department and ADP each month. One reason for this that is cited frequently is the number of people...
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courtesy of IBMInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has ordered staffing contractor CDI Corp. (NYSE: CDI) to reduce the number of hours CDI’s employees bill Big Blue to no more than 36...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department is out with its latest weekly jobless claims report, which is also the last report ahead of Friday’s key unemployment and payrolls report. Claims...
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courtesy of Ford Motor CompanySales of the Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) F-150 flagship pickup have surged so strongly that the U.S. car company will add workers to build more of them. Analysts have noted...
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ThinkstockAlcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) remains pressured to build up its earnings in a very difficult environment. Now the company has announced that it will “review 460,000 metric tons of smelting...
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ThinkstockWe already warned ahead of the number that the first-quarter gross domestic product would come in well under estimates. Now we have a setup for a weaker-than-expected April payrolls and...
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The economy is still tough and jobs are not yet plentiful. That is likely one part of why the rise of the dollar store theme is now becoming a secular trend rather than a cyclical trend. Dollar...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Employment Cost Index in the first quarter of 2013 is looking very tame, and the so-called wage inflation is running very low. The Labor Department showed that the first-quarter...
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ThinkstockUnemployment in the euro area grew again in March, supporting the obvious conclusion that a lack of stimulus, terribly high unemployment and the crippling of the financial and industrial...
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ThinkstockNow that shale has become a major source of energy, economists have started to argue the extent to which it can boost the U.S. economy. If North Dakota, one of the world’s centers for...
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