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ThinkstockIf any proof of the unevenness of the economic recovery still has to be made, it is the wild disparity of unemployment from state to state. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)...
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The U.S. Labor Department is out with its tally on weekly jobless claims, and the verdict is that it was great news. While other information is out that was not positive, the weekly jobless claims...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department released its Producer Price Index (PPI) for final demand for the month of June on Wednesday morning. We were worried that wholesale inflation would be stronger...
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ThinkstockOn Wednesday morning the markets will have to deal with yet another reading on inflation — albeit at the wholesale level. The US Labor Department will report its reading for the Producer...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims. Frankly, the market already had a stellar unemployment and payrolls report last week, and this data...
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ThinkstockAs of the last day in May, there were roughly 4.6 million job openings in America, up from 4.5 million on the last business day of April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department has released its June payrolls and unemployment report, and ADP’s gains on Wednesday turned out to be more accurate than many skeptics...
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This Thursday will mark a very unusual event in economic reporting. Since this week holds the first Friday of the month, we are supposed to get the Labor Department’s Unemployment and Payrolls...
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ThinkstockStocks have closed at record levels yet again, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) came only a point or so shy of 17,000 ahead of this week’s key Labor Department report on...
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Average student debt levels have skyrocketed in recent years, reaching nearly $30,000 in 2012 from $18,650 in 2004. With debt levels swelling, President Barack Obama has recently addressed the issue,...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has issued its weekly jobless claims, and we saw another drop in claims. Unfortunately, that decline was only by 2,000, down to 312,000. The prior week was also...
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ThinkstockLate last year, the federal government allowed its emergency unemployment compensation benefits program to expire. This decision has left much of the nation’s long-term unemployed without...
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ThinkstockFueled by the shale oil boom, almost everyone in North Dakota has a job. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in state during May was 2.6%. Several other...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Department of Labor is out with its weekly jobless claims report from last week, showing a positive trend. Jobless claims fell to 312,000 in the past week. Bloomberg was calling...
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ThinkstockThe Labor Department has released its Producer Price Index (PPI), a measurement of wholesale inflation. In Friday’s report, that should probably read deflation. Before you panic about...
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