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Many have said that the math from the US Labor Department is fuzzy, and today will only show further conversations of that notion. Despite the negative recent news in weekly jobless claims, the...
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The Labor Department released the weekly jobless claims data this morning, and whatever policies are being presented just are not helping on the hiring and firing front in the nation. The weekly...
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The large multinational companies were supposed to have done their layoffs during the first half of 2009, when the recession was at its worst. Those layoffs should have cut as close to the bone as...
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The weekly jobless claims are are fresh out from the Labor Department. All the gains we started to see and the progress made late in 2009 are going the wrong way now. We show a gain of 36,000 to...
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The Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims data. The figure came in as a gain of 11,000 in the jobless line at 444,000. We had a consensus expected from Bloomberg as being...
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The Great Recession has taken its toll on America. The New-Normal in U.S. economic data and jobs is starting to look like more like Europe every day, except that none of us get five-weeks off or...
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The Labor Department has just released what is so far the most important jobs data in 2010. The December unemployment rate came out at 10.0% and the change in non-Farm payrolls was -85,000. ...
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The Labor Department posted the weekly jobless claims data this morning. The figure came to a gain of 1,000 on an adjusted basis to 433,000. Bloomberg had the consensus estimate at 450,000,...
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The press made a great deal of a report that job satisfaction hit in 2009 what is an all-time low in a 22-year-old survey conducted by The Conference Board. The new research shows that only 45% of...
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It seems that employers refrained from as many firings the week before Christmas this year. The data from the Labor Department showed that initial jobless claims fell by 28,000 to 452,000 in the...
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The Labor Department is out with its weekly jobless claims data and again we have a reading south of 500,000. The claims rose 17,000 to 474,000 versus a Bloomberg target of 460,000. That reverses...
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The Labor Department is out with its November unemployment rate and the change in non-Farm payrolls. The official unemployment rate in November went down to 10.0% from 10.2% in October. That is...
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There have been at least two occasions where President Obama referred to the direction of the unemployment and non-farm payrolls data before the key report due Friday. Once was just a month ago,...
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The ADP private sector jobs report says that 169,000 people became unemployed in November. This means that the government figures on unemployment for last month will likely indicate that the jobless...
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The Federal Reserve Board’s Beige Book has offered a dismal report and dismal outlook for what is roughly two years now. That can’t be a shock considering how crummy the economy and job...
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