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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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Wikimedia CommonsJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) announced it will cut 4,000 part-time jobs and another 13,000 contract positions in its mortgage business. The bank blamed weaknesses in the...
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ThinkstockFor some reason, investors and the rest of the world are fascinated by the decision of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) management to halt the ability of people to work from remote offices. Now,...
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ThinkstockThe economy has started to add jobs again, at a rate of 150,00 or better each month. Government data and that from private sector experts have shown that many of the jobs added are not as...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsWhen the Bureau of Labor Statistics issues its national employment numbers each month, private payrolls are separated from government payroll data, which includes...
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ThinkstockWe had two reports on the labor situation in America this Thursday. The weekly jobless claims is of course very current, while the report on worker productivity and unit labor costs is a...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsState unemployment can only improve so much if the states with the highest jobless rates do not have a turnaround in hiring, obviously. So far, that has not been the...
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ThinkstockGallup’s Job Creation Index fell from 17 in December to 16 in January, the lowest level in 11 months. The index for nongovernment jobs fell from 20 in December to 18 in January, the...
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Wikimedia CommonsThe country’s largest home improvement store, The Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD), announced this morning that it has begun hiring the first of more than 80,000 seasonal employees to...
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ThinkstockThe best part of any budget is the part in which its architects forecast what will happen years into the future. Nations, companies and nonprofits have five-year plans. Most of these plans...
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ThinkstockOver the past 12 months, more small businesses have fired employees than hired new ones, according to the latest Wells Fargo/Gallup small business index. The January index reading of -10 is...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department is out with its critical monthly employment situation report. Wall St. will not exactly be cheering, although the news is not exactly awful. The...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThursday brought on a slew of economic data ahead of Friday’s key unemployment and nonfarm payrolls data. The Labor Department and jobs watchers have some good news...
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