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While the U.S. unemployment rate hovers around 5.5% nationally, the jobless rate is 7% or more in Nevada and West Virginia.
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While the number of people employed in the United States surged higher in May, the count of the long-term unemployed stayed at 2.4 million.
Hoping to reverse the impression that Google is a male-dominated culture, particularly among its tech ranks, the company disclosed that 21% of its job additions were women.
Most of the states with the highest unemployment rates have seen their labor markets rebound over the past year. In the past month, however, the unemployment rates of some of these states inched up.
Amazon.com will add 6,000 new jobs at its U.S. fulfillment centers. It is extremely unlikely that the jobs will pay well.
In what is a modest start to the Starbuck's program to pay college tuition for its "partners," 1,800 have signed up so far.
The Chicago Federal Reserve recently released a report showing its projections regarding the changing labor force composition and the natural rate of unemployment.
As the U.S. economy adds jobs at a fast clip month by month, the rate for teenagers remains extremely high.
ADP showed a projected 169,000 private sector jobs added in April, but TrimTabs estimates that some 327,000 jobs were created.
While Dow Chemical will cut 3% of its workforce, nothing in the corporation's press release mentioned that Dow's president, chairman and chief executive officer will cut his own pay by a dime.
New college graduates have a median starting salary of $45,478, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
According to the White House, the Obamas made an adjusted gross income of $477,383 in 2014 and they paid $93,362 in federal income tax.
In February,the jobless rate in El Centro, Calif., was 21.3%, the only city where the rate is still above 20%. It is also located at the center of the California drought map.
The U.S. Department of Labor released its March payroll and unemployment data Friday morning, and it is hard to imagine how it could have been much worse.