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The outplacement firm of Challenger, Gray & Christmas has released its job-cuts report for August, indicating that July layoffs declined by 12.5% below July’s layoff count, which had dropped by...
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We have had a slew of jobs data ahead of Friday’s key employment situation from the Department of Labor. After ADP showed a very surprising larger jump in its payrolls projection for August, now we...
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Automatic Data Processing Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP) has stunned the markets with its projected private payrolls gains this morning. The number is meant to preempt the official Labor Department’s report on...
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France’s National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) reported that the country’s unemployment rate reached a 13-year high in the second quarter, and that does not include a...
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Many investors, traders, and speculators may just be coming back from their holiday or a long weekend, but this week is the first trading week of the month and that brings up many key jobs reports. ...
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The guessing about the August jobs numbers will be amplified as Friday’s announcement approaches. Some analysts believe that the figures will prove that the U.S. rate of GDP growth has moved to...
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Hyundai has just settled a long and bitter strike with its auto workers. Lufthansa cabin crews have just disrupted its flight schedule. Talks between AMR’s American Airlines and pilots might...
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The U.S. unemployment rate peaked at 10% in October 2009 and has since slowly improved, flirting with 8% earlier this month. Despite the downward trend, the rate is still more than double...
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Francois Hollande, the president of France, wants his government to spend roughly $2.5 billion to create 150,000 jobs in 2012 and 2013. The details of the program are complex. The central government...
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Almost 60% of Americans would change careers according to a recent survey conducted by Yahoo! Finance and Parade magazine. That’s just one of a number of startling results: Most Americans (28%)...
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Between 2010 and 2020, the United States is expected to add nearly 20 million new jobs. That represents a 14.3% increase in labor. A good part of that change has to do with population growth, as well...
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With an unemployment rate still stuck above 8% and much talk about a mismatch between worker skills and the jobs available, many people are trying to scope out the fields that will have many job...
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The economy has begun its slow recovery from the Great Recession, and with it, the labor market is showing signs of improving as well. The unemployment rate fell from 9.5% in June 2009 to 8.2% in...
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The Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims. Today’s report came to 372,000 and that was a gain of 4,000 after last week’s report was revised higher to 368,000 from a...
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The Great Recession has affected nearly every person in the United States. But the recovery has fared better in some parts of the country than others. 24/7 Wall St. looked at the 10 metropolitan...
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