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ThinkstockThe kinds of jobs that don’t require a college degree probably hasn’t changed much in the last 30 or more years. What has changed is the number of those jobs now filled by college...
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It was once a privilege, at least from a financial standpoint, to work on Wall St. The job cuts in the financial industry threaten the lucrative jobs of tens of thousands of people around the world...
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ThinkstockLast week privately held Cargill Inc. announced that it would close its beef processing plant in Plainview, Texas, due to a drop in the number of cattle available as a result of the...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsLast week’s first solid reading on the weekly jobless claims reading is being confirmed this Thursday. The Labor Department has announced that weekly jobless fell by...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe new annual data on union membership must be particularly depressing for labor leaders in states that have traditionally been their strongholds. New BLS data show...
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ThinkstockMerely mentioning the word “union” along with labor can become a controversial and heated topic. We are going to leave the union versus non-union debate up to the readers, but new data...
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ThinkstockIf you have heard of the growing burden of student loans on society, there is a new report out from the U.S. Census Bureau that coincides with this trend. This is the growing rates of...
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ThinkstockHome improvement retailer Lowe’s Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) said today that it plans to hire about 45,000 seasonal employees at its U.S. stores this spring. The company also plans to add...
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In contrast to data about improved jobs situations in the United States, Germany and China, much of the balance of the world remains mired in high unemployment. The recession has not ended at all in...
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ThinkstockAmong the best measures of how strong the recovery of the U.S. economy has become is the improvement in the jobs rate in the states hit hardest by the recession. The upward turn was...
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ThinkstockBy the reckoning of number of economists, Spain’s number of unemployed reached six million late last year. Although the means of measurement are different, the figure contrasts with a...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its weekly jobless claims and the news looks rather good on the surface. In fact, if this can be repeated for two more weeks, it is very likely that it...
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ThinkstockIndications have emerged that job market growth may have cooled considerably in January, or that layoffs may have surpassed job additions. If so, it would be the first time in more than a...
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courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.In an announcement at the major U.S. retail trade show, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has said that it will hire at least 100,000 U.S. military service veterans in...
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ThinkstockAmerican Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) announced it will lay off 5,400 people, due in part to a slowdown in its travel business. The firm will take a fourth-quarter charge. As far as the public...
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