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The U.S. Labor Department is out with the Decemberber unemployment and non-Farm payrolls data. After a huge upside surprise from this week’s ADP payrolls data being almost double expectations,...
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America must add four million jobs next year to significantly eat away at the employment loss of the past four years. More than 16 million citizens are out of work in the U.S. That puts the...
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After a sizzling hot figure from ADP on private sector jobs created, the weekly jobless claims from the U.S. Labor Department came in with a drop of 15,000 to 372,000 for the week. Bloomberg had the...
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The U.S. Labor Department is out with its reading on weekly jobless claims. After some improvements in the weeks before, the tally of claims rose by 15,000 to 381,000. Bloomberg had estimates at...
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The Labor Department is out with another improvement in the weekly jobless claims. Hopefully it is not just holiday related, but investors will likely take it either way. This last week’s...
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The U.S. Labor Department is full of good news this morning. Both the weekly jobless claims and the producer price index as a measure of wholesale inflation came in better than expected. Maybe...
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Freddie Mac has released its full “U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook” for December, which is actually the government sponsored entity’s 2012 outlook for the housing market and the...
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The job market remains tight enough, and people remain concerned enough about their current employment, that many would accept cuts in vacation time and benefits. The news stands as another...
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The average person in the U.S. works just over 2,000 hours per year, or 39.5 per week, and is paid $37,128 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Some occupations, however, require...
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We already saw the rate cut from the European Central Bank this Thursday morning. Now it is time for the U.S. Labor Department’s weekly announcement on jobless claims. The report put the last...
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In a more detailed explanation of planned service cuts floated last September, the U.S. Postal Service has now published some details to its cuts in first-class mail delivery and the closure of up to...
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The U.S. Labor Department has reported on November unemployment and non-farm payrolls this morning on the heels of a weak jobless claims figure yesterday. Non-Farm Payrolls grew by 120,000 for...
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The Heldrich Center at Rutgers has issued a new report that says only 7% of people who lost their jobs after the financial crisis have made it back to their former levels of work and financial...
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The U.S. Labor Department has issued its coverage of weekly jobless claims. There may be some volatility due to the report being around the Thanksgiving holiday week, but the figures are...
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The Labor Department is showing that weekly jobless claims fell by 5,000 to 388,000 versus a Dow Jones forecast of about 397,000. This may still be too close to the 400,000 mark to make for an...
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