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The U.S. Department of Labor has released the latest report on weekly jobless claims, and the figure was higher than expected.
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Payrolls views offered by ADP and by TrimTabs likely will mute at least some of the more aggressive payrolls estimates from economists for Friday's Labor Department report.
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Anyone looking for a rapid recovery from Europe's deep and prolonged recession will find no comfort in the unemployment rate for the euro area in November.
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On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its unemployment situation report for the month of December.
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Some 20 states were to increase their minimum wage on January 1, according to the National Employment Law Project.
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North Dakota has the nation's lowest unemployment rate of 2.7%. However, there is probably no other state where such a large percentage of those jobs are at risk.
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During the recession and for several years afterward, the ability of many Americans to find good jobs was eroded. According to new research, the problem has faded.
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Even as the national unemployment rate inches down, there are several states where it is already below 4.0% and more where the rate is below 4.5%.
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ThinkstockBy the first day of the new year, more than half the states will have passed legislation raising the minimum wage above the federal minimum of $7.25 first established in 2009. Four states...
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Most of the conclusions of the ILO Global Wage Report 2014/2015 were grim, particularly in terms of advances in the United States.
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Following the Black Friday strikes at more than 1,600 Walmart locations across the United States, fast-food workers will walk off the job in 160 cities on Thursday.
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Seasonal jobs and what they pay should boost the economy in the final two months of the year, but that may not last.
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New research shows the average American worker earns 21 days of paid time off annually but uses just 77% of that time, forfeiting about five days a year.
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The unemployment figure in Spain remains staggeringly high, which means that it is years, or perhaps decades, from a complete recovery from the worst recession in decades.
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In a reversal of decades of American companies moving manufacturing from the United States to China, executives of large firms appear to have changed their minds.
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