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courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) rarely makes the news for anything positive on its labor relations. The company employs over 2 million people, and it has become...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsCan weather be to blame for poor jobs numbers for three consecutive months? After two disappointing Labor Department reports on monthly payrolls, the Bureau of Labor...
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ThinkstockDespite some very weak independent jobs reports seen so far this week, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that the number of weekly jobless claims fell by 26,000 to 323,000 in the latest...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThursday’s economic report calendar seemed to be good when you consider that the decline in durable goods was better than expected, but the Labor Department has...
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ThinkstockHarvard Business School tops many ratings of business schools in the United States and even the world. Its graduates are paid more than the graduates of almost all, if not all, of the...
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ThinkstockPerhaps living in the seat of the federal government has one large advantage — how well people are paid. Since Maryland does well by the same measure, the benefits may spread miles beyond...
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This week's report from Department of Labor was disappointing. Sure, the official unemployment rate dipped to 6.6%. That was in-line with expectations, but it truly feels like skewed data when you...
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The verdict is in. Friday's release from the Department of Labor showed that nonfarm payrolls grew by 113,000. Bloomberg was calling for 181,000 and Dow Jones was calling for 189,000.
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ThinkstockFor decades, economists have counted 5% unemployment as the sign of a healthy and fully recovered economy. The U.S. jobless rate remains so far from that number, one could fairly ask if it...
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ThinkstockWednesday’s ADP Private Sector Payrolls report showed a gain of 175,000 in January. Dow Jones was calling for 189,000 and Bloomberg was calling for 170,000. While there has to be some...
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January and February have put the stock market in question for 2014. After three series of major economic releases were handily under expectations in the United States, the issues overseas are...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department reported a surge in weekly jobless claims during the past week. Bloomberg had been calling for almost no change at 327,000, but the rate rose by 19,000 to 348,000....
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The U.S. Labor Department is out with its take on weekly jobless claims, and the numbers are still coming in at levels conducive to better jobs figures than what was reported for December. It is...
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The Labor Department's Job Openings and Labor Turnover report for November showed that job openings in America had reached 4 million, nearly a six-year high.
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ThinkstockLast Friday’s bomb of a report from the U.S. Labor Department has not exactly gone away. This took up perhaps more than it should have of weekend conversation time. In fact, the...
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