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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in November six states had unemployment rates above 6%, while the national rate for the month was 5%.
Economists might suspect that the latest jobless reading perhaps points to a softening of what has been a very solid labor market.
The Conference Board's Employment Trends Index showed a decrease in November. it was not quite as robust as what the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated just on Friday.
The U.S. Department of Labor has given what is the last official government report including key jobs data, via weekly jobless claims, ahead of Friday's key unemployment and payrolls report.
Investors have been using the ADP Payrolls report the TrimTabs employment growth report as a preliminary tool to judge and predict what the Labor Department report will say.
Investors have been using the ADP Payrolls report, released 48 hours ahead of the Labor Department report, as a preliminary tool to judge and predict what the payrolls report will be.
Two states have unemployment rates below 3% They are Nebraska and North Dakota. Each stands out because the national rate is 5%, and in some states over 6% The jobless rate in Nebraska in October was...
The U.S. Labor Department has turned in yet another stellar weekly jobless claims report.
The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) report shows that the number of openings rose to 5.526 million in September from 5.377 million in August.
Research suggest that job stress contributes to the amount of life lost on the job and varies in amount by such factors as race, education level and gender.
When the September payrolls reading from the Labor Department was so weak, it was TrimTabs that proved more accurate.
Each month we get a sneak peak that is a kind of preview for the Labor Department's nonfarm and private sector payrolls via the ADP National Employment Report.
ThinkstockOut of 158.19 million U.S. wage earners in 2014, 134 received cash compensation of at least $50 million. The total number of gazillionaires rose from 110 in 2013, and none of the...
All in all, the Labor Department data offers signs of hope for the October employment report that will be out at the start of November. The outside data is signaling something else.
The national unemployment rate for September was 5.1%, the same as the previous month, although the American black community suffered more than most.