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Six states added, in total, 787,000 jobs during the past year, according to government data for March. This makes them the primary engines of national employment growth over that period. Nearly a...
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All of the great jobs gains may have peaked if the Labor Department’s report on weekly jobless claims is going to remain static. While the official figure of claims is down by 2,000 for the last...
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What happens when you are the de facto king of solar, get an analyst downgrade, have no full-time CEO, announce factory closures, and announce broad layoffs? It might not be a sign of any strength...
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When the U.S. labor market is discussed, the national figures naturally take center stage. But the employment picture across the country can be very different — not just between states, but from...
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The Labor Department’s report on weekly jobless claims may have the caveat that Easter was earlier but it is ugly on the surface. The weekly jobless claims rose 13,000 to a seasonally adjusted...
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Americans do not want to be news reporters, broadcasters, waitresses, soldiers, dishwashers, dairy farmers or oil rig workers. Most of all , they do not want to be lumberjacks. That is according to...
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AT&T (NYSE: T) cannot fire workers it does not want. Sony (NYSE: SNE) easily can fire its unwanted workers. Leverage is at the heart of employee power, now that the recession has ended and...
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The US economy added only 120,000 jobs in March–a huge disappointment. Most consensus forecasts were for 210,000. There had been a concern that improved hiring over the last five months would need...
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The U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims for the prior week. Today’s report is unlikely to change the unemployment and payrolls projections due tomorrow. The...
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The Institute for Supply Management is out with its latest report on the services economy. The non-manufacturing data for the month of March 2012 showed that economic activity in the...
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Yahoo.comYahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has confirmed the big secret that most financial and employment readers already knew was coming soon. The layoffs have been confirmed. Yahoo! is talking about...
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ADP says private firms added 209,000 workers last month. The market was disappointed that the number was not better, but at least job growth is a regular part of the economy now. It tends to be an...
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TrimTabs Investment Research has released its March employment data showing that the United States added 187,000 jobs in March. This is above the 172,000 average of each of the prior three months,...
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The reason for high unemployment figures in the US and the chance they will improve have been based on two opposing theories. The first is that jobs were lost because of the recession. The second is...
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A report at The Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital blog, cites several sources confirming that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) will begin firing workers next week. The company employs about 14,000...
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