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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 news for this coming Friday’s unemployment and non-farm payrolls report is now expected to be a bit muted. ADP released its monthly jobs projection for the month of May, and the...
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ThinkstockThe Labor Department’s Employment Situation report is due out this Friday. The investing community will get to find out whether they should have sold in May and gone away. This will be...
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ThinkstockAlmost all the analysis of the unemployment situation in the euro area focused on the record jobless rate of 12.2%. Nothing was said about the 87.8% employment rate. The very large portion...
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ThinkstockWe have now seen the report on personal income and spending for the month of April, and frankly both look a bit soft and may have a slight impact on some of the second-quarter gross...
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ThinkstockMen are not the primary bread winners in more and more homes. The effects on them may be devastating emotionally, but the recession turned a centuries-old trend against them. New Pew...
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ThinkstockThe job market always has been broken in two by employment experts. One segment is the employment among firms with 100 positions or less. The other is at bigger companies, which range, for...
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ThinkstockThe residents of Switzerland are the most satisfied with their lives, according to the latest Better Life Index report, released this week by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsWeekly jobless claims data have been released by the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics and may offer at least some support for a very weak equity...
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ThinkstockNetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) is reporting its fourth-quarter corporate earnings and it is throwing in a larger share buyback plan and is initiating a dividend payment to support the news. The...
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ThinkstockThe message you need to send to Washington D.C. is that consumer spending is outshining the ill effects of the sequestration cuts. A new report from the National Association for Business...
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ThinkstockOn Monday, LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD) revised the user agreement for its online professional network to exclude certain businesses and at least one profession. The company said that it has...
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ThinkstockSick days are estimated to cost the U.S. economy $84 billion each year. According to the latest data released in a joint study by Gallup and Healthways, some professions miss substantially...
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ThinkstockFor the past four and a half years, teen unemployment has exceeded 20%. As of April 2013, 24.1% of teens seeking jobs were unable to find work, according to a report released this week....
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ThinkstockLast Friday’s unemployment report managed to come in much better than anticipated. Some even may have questioned whether the computers at the Labor Department were making proper...
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