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The report on weekly jobless claims is now out from the Labor Department, and the number of claims gained 2,000 to total 366,000. Bloomberg and Dow Jones were both looking for 365,000 for the week....
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Flickr, James SarmientoA group from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute has come out with an extraordinary analysis of the labor market and its relationship to educational attainment. It is titled...
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Greece may not be very large by gross domestic product or population, but it could be the single most important test for the effects of austerity. Its unemployment rate is now 23.1%, second only to...
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The report on second-quarter productivity and unit labor costs is out from the Labor Department after last week’s surprise nonfarm payrolls gains. Productivity (hourly output) rose by 1.6% versus...
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A new poll from Gallup shows that people who live in North Dakota report the best hiring situations among their employers, compared with people in any other state. With an index of 34, North Dakota...
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The U.S. Labor Department said in its latest Job Openings and Turnover Survey that job openings at U.S. workplaces rose to 3.76 million in June from 3.66 million in May. Year over year, job openings...
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Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the U.S. gained 163,000 new jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis. But the nonadjusted numbers tell a very different story. Nonfarm employment...
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As the intellectual property lawsuit of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) against Samsung in Australia progressed, the South Korean company has accused the American one of tampering with witnesses. According...
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Will the United States be a country in which many people have low-paid jobs for more than another generation? Or can a combination of luck and public policy prevent that? The opposing views were...
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Every month, the U.S. Department of Labor announces the official unemployment figures. On Friday, it reported that the unemployment rate rose from 8.2% to 8.3%, and immediately the news captured the...
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Today was J-DAY! Jobs Day. The report from the Labor Department indicated that in the month of July the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3% from 8.2%. The big surprise came in the form of nonfarm...
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United Continental Holdings Inc. (NYSE: UAL) the Chicago-based parent of United Airlines, has reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract with the Air Line Pilots Association. The pilots...
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The Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims. What makes this report so important today is that this gives a final look at the official Labor Department data before the...
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Bloomberg reports that a car industry expert in Europe claims sales trouble due to the slow economy and vicious competition could cost 500,000 jobs within the sector. According to Bloomberg: The...
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The ADP payrolls projection for the month of July is going to act as a potential boost to the key unemployment and payrolls data due this Friday. ADP said that its projection of private...
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