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Some reports from the U.S. Department of Labor show stronger than expected monthly payroll gains, while others do not. The case for February was the latter.
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The economy lost more than 76,000 jobs in February, over 110% higher than in the same month in 2017. It is another sign that the U.S. expansion, so robust for most of the years since the Great...
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Home Depot has announced plans to hire 80,000 new workers in full-time, part-time, and seasonal as it prepares for the annual burst of spring home improvement shopping.
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A new report on women in the workplace indicates that progress toward more gender diversity is not just slow. It's nearly undetectable.
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It turns out that the jobs market can keep improving. In the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey indicated that the number of job openings reached a new record high in December.
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Major strikes kept a total of nearly half a million people out of work for some period last year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics listed 20 work stoppages as major strikes. BLS data show that the...
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy added 304,000 jobs in January and the national unemployment rate was 4%. The level for Black Americans was 6.8% which is about what the number...
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In a worrying start to the year, major companies laid off 52,988 workers in January, up 20.7% from December and up 18.7% from January a year ago. The data show a mixed trend. Long term, January 2019...
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Furloughed federal workers, including those who are working but not being paid, will miss their second paycheck Friday. Missing pay is driving up job searches among furloughed workers and driving...
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Lost manufacturing jobs have a wide-ranging effect on employment in other sectors according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute.
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The number of women who replaced men as CEOs in 2018 was significantly higher than in any year since Challenger, Gray & Christmas has been tracking gender data.
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In December, the unemployment rate was 3.9% nationwide, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, in ten states, it was much lower than that, dropping below 3% in each one...
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More than 1,400 U.S. CEOs left their jobs in 2018, the most since 2008 and the second-highest total on record at Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the outplacement firm that has reported the data...
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The rise of the machines is coming. What if, despite all of these job-killing fears, they actually prove to be jobs-makers?
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The December jobs report was almost entirely positive. But one group has not done nearly as well. Black unemployment was almost 70% above the national average.
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