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courtesy of AppleSina News reports that Foxconn, which makes components for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) products among others, may open a factory in the United States. Among the sites being evaluated...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has reported its change in weekly jobless claims. Last week was of course skewed by Hurricane Sandy in the Northeast, and now that we have seen an unemployment...
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Wikimedia CommonsNational Employee Morale Day was celebrated at Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) yesterday as the company reassigned a number of executives. Buried in the press release about the plans were a...
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Wikimedia CommonsBoeing Co. (NYSE: BA) did pretty much what we expect other aerospace and defense companies to do. The company waited for the outcome of the presidential election, and now it is...
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ThinkstockElection Day has come and gone. President Obama won a second term. The current electoral vote was by a margin of about 3 to 2 (unofficial), but the percentage last seen was only about 51%...
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ThinkstockThe Labor Department data is often written with what feels like a political bend, but admittedly that has been the case for more than two decades now. So when today’s Labor Department...
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thinkstockThe solar sector’s problems may reach far and wide, but the employment around the industry actually is still growing. A new report from the Solar Energy Industries Association will be...
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thinkstockAfter a highly controversial drop in the unemployment rate to 7.8% from 8.1% in September, we now have the October unemployment rate announcement from the Labor Department. The official...
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ThinkstockIn 2011, men working full-time earned a median of $48,765. Women earned just $38,373. That difference of more than $10,000 only tells part of the story of the continuing gender wage gap in...
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flickr / gsfcThe Alliance for American Manufacturing regularly flogs or lauds politicians for whether they support or disregard the interests of the lobbing firm and its members. This membership...
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ThinkstockWe have two more key economic and labor reports ahead of Friday’s key payrolls and unemployment report. The third-quarter preliminary nonfarm productivity and unit labor costs have been...
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ThinkstockThe ADP National Employment Report for the month of October is out and it shows under its new methodology that the U.S. private sector added some 158,000 jobs in the month. Dow Jones was...
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ThinkstockMore bad news is coming on the jobs front, if Challenger, Gray & Christmas is right in its assessment. The report for the month of October shows that layoffs rose by 41% from the prior...
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ThinkstockInflation in wages is not really present right now. A report for the third quarter showed that the Employment Cost Index slipped to +0.4% from +0.5% in the second quarter. Bloomberg was...
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The EU statistics agency Eurostat reports that the unemployment rate in the eurozone climbed to a record 11.6% in September. That was up from the 11.5% reported for August, and exceeded the 11.5%...
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