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Jon OggThursday finally brought on a lot of new economic data for investors to peruse from the Labor Department and Commerce Department. This on the heels of several days in a row of almost no real...
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courtesy of IBMInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is showing employees that the company must be one of the worst technology companies to work for, period! Reports are out that IBM is...
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ThinkstockWages of many workers in the United Kingdom have collapsed recently. The causes of some these drops also exist in the United States, where real income has been stagnant for a decade. The...
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ThinkstockOne in every five jobs in the United States required a high level of knowledge in science, technology, engineering or math as of 2011. Since the industrial revolution, the share of these...
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ThinkstockJob creation likely will be capped by the tepid growth of most large economies. Europe in particular will be a drag on a global jobs recovery. Without the addition of ten of millions of...
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ThinkstockRemember all the talk about how sequestration was going to lead to endless numbers of firings and endless cuts in government services? Surprise! It did not really happen anywhere as much as...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department has released its unemployment and payrolls reading for the month of May. The data looks mixed on the surface. The bad news is that the...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsWhile the markets wait for the official unemployment rates to be issued for the federal government that will cover the month of May, overseas markets whipped back and...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has submitted its Household Net Worth report for the first quarter of 2013 and there is good news. Total household net worth reached $70.3 trillion, up about $3 trillion...
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ThinkstockIf you ever wondered about a pay disparity between the top and the bottom, pay close attention here. CEOs and presidents are often paid very well at the big banks. SNL Financial has...
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ThinkstockIn a tracking survey that estimates the percentage of the U.S. population employed at least 30 hours a week, Gallup reports that the payroll-to-population (P2P) employment rate fell from...
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ThinkstockAre there any jobs in Greece? If so, there are plenty of applicants, or at least bodies, that can apply. A report on Thursday showed that the March unemployment rate rose yet again to 26.8%...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its weekly jobless claims report, the last real employment data ahead of Friday’s key unemployment and payrolls report. The...
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ThinkstockThe United States is the only developed country in the world without a single legally required paid vacation day or holiday. By law, every country in the European Union has at least four...
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ThinkstockThe latest research from Mercer Investment Consulting shows that the aggregate deficit in pension plans sponsored by the companies listed on the S&P 1500 stands at $269 billion at the...
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