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ThinkstockA large body of evidence indicates that many people who lost jobs in the most recent recession have had to replace them with positions that pay much less. If so, consumer spending has been...
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ThinkstockThe Employee Benefit Research Institute released a study that shows what almost everyone already knows. Americans have too little money to retire, and they know it. The solution is not...
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ThinkstockThe restructuring of the financial services industry, which has ranged from 30,000 layoffs at Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) to cuts at Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) and Barclays PLC (NYSE:...
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ThinkstockIf there is an event, there is a cost or an economic impact associated with it. St. Patrick’s Day comes every year on March 17, and 24/7 Wall St. wanted to see what sort of economic...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsTwo bits of data were released from the Labor Department today. Weekly jobless claims is a live reading, and producer prices measuring wholesale inflation is a February...
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ThinkstockThe Business Roundtable (BRT) released its first-quarter CEO Economic Outlook Survey for 2013, showing that average CEO economic expectations for the coming six-month period have improved...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe number of U.S. workers laid off or fired in January fell to a 12-year low of 1.51 million according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor. Coupled...
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ThinkstockThe Conference Board has released its monthly Employment Trends Index for the month of February, and it very much confirms the strength seen in Friday’s nonfarm and private sector...
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ThinkstockAcross the country, millions of people work in the public sector, including teachers, clerks and soldiers. The different levels of government employ 16% of U.S. workers, according to a...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsOK, so this is finally some rockin’ good news on the jobs front. The Labor Department is out with its key employment situation for the month of February. Due to the...
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ThinkstockThis morning brought on several key economic releases ahead of the key Friday jobs number and unemployment data from the Labor Department. The Challenger Job Cut Report came in at 55,356...
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ThinkstockIt was just on Tuesday that we showed how so many jobs reports are coming out this week that could change the consensus for Friday’s key unemployment and payrolls report from the Labor...
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ThinkstockThis is an unusual month because, due to a strange calendar in February, the monthly employment situation report by the U.S. Labor Department did not come on the first Friday of the month....
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ThinkstockThe public remains awed every time a U.S. car company adds even a few employees. Perhaps that is because so many tens of thousands lost jobs during the recession and bankruptcies of General...
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ThinkstockEuro area unemployment rose again, a sign that austerity has not helped alleviate economic markets and likely has caused an erosion of jobs. According to Eurostat figures: The euro area...
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