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Monster Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: MWW) has released its Monster Employment Index for August 2012 showing that the United States grew by 6% year over year, and one that also rose by 6% month over month....
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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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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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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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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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Steelmaker Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. (NASDAQ: SCHN) announced this morning that it would fire 300 workers in a restructuring the company said will save $25 million annually. The restructuring...
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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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Computer printer maker Lexmark International Inc. (NYSE: LXK) announced today that it will leave the inkjet printer business. The company expects to eliminate its inkjet development by the end of...
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Approximately 133 million people are employed in the United States as of May 2011, working in hundreds of different occupations, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Different jobs vary...
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The Opel division of General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) has been unprofitable for so long that the U.S. automaker has more than once considered shutting the operations down. Today, however, Opel lives on...
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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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In a report from the Fair Labor Association (FLA) published yesterday, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) supplier Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., better known as Foxconn, is ahead of schedule on correcting a...
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Union leaders are displeased that President Obama has decided to extend a two-year pay freeze for federal employees until at least next spring because Congress has failed to agree on a budget for the...
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