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ThinkstockWith Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve hoping and looking for any good news on higher prices and getting inflation back up to 2% or more, any aspect of pricing is being looked at...
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ThinkstockInvestors, economists, and business owners just got to see their first view of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the second quarter of 2015. The US economy grew by 2.3% in the second...
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The U.S. Labor Department has released a solid weekly jobless claims report for the week ending July 18.
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ThinkstockThe national unemployment rate for June was 5.3%, essentially unchanged from May. And the lowest unemployment rate in the country was less than half that, 2.6% in Nebraska. No other state...
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The U.S. Department of Labor released its weekly jobless claims on Thursday, showing a drop of 15,000 to 281,000. That is the good news.
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The Producer Price Index gain was larger than expected in June. That is good news if you are cheering for the Federal Reserve to begin raising interest rates.
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Thinkstock Personal incomes grew by 0.8% across the nation in 2013. While some metropolitan areas were among the largest contributors to the growth, in over 100 urban regions, incomes declined. The...
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This past week brought an unusual rise in weekly jobless claims. It is very possible that the July 4 holiday week had an impact here.
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thinkstock.comThe nation’s wealthiest residents have controlled a disproportionately large share of all income for many decades. In 2001, however, that proportion became a majority share. Since...
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The United States had more than 5 million job openings on the last business day of May, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
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The ranks of the long-term unemployed were 2.1 million in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That stands at over a quarter of all unemployed people.
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The U.S. Department of Labor has released the highly awaited unemployment and payrolls report for the month of June.
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Unemployment rates in two American cities are closer to the jobless rate of Greece than that of the United States.
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Thursday will mark two key events, the first being the U.S. Department of Labor's report for unemployment and new payrolls for the month of June.
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thinkstock.comAbout 213,029 barrels of beer, or 6.6 billion gallons, were shipped into the United States in 2013, down slightly from the year before. U.S. beer shipments, used to capture consumption...
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