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he Labor Department said that 2016 added more than 2 million jobs for the sixth straight year. The more import reading was that workers earned more.
It was the wide adoption and exponential growth of new technologies that did in the video rental industry, according to a recent analysis by 24/7 Wall St.
The holidays are a particularly cruel time to lay off people, or to tell them they will be laid off soon. That has not stopped a number of companies from doing so.
While the biggest number from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is the monthly payrolls and unemployment report, its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) report is used as a confirming tool...
The Conference Board has released its Employment Trends Index showing an increase in November, after also having increased in October.
The U.S. Department of Labor's latest employment situation report indicated that the official unemployment rate for November dropped to a post-recovery low.
Each and every month, the U.S. Department of Labor 's payrolls and unemployment rate report is effectively previewed by ADP's monthly private sector payrolls report.
A huge stock market recovery and consumer sentiment screaming higher since the presidential election has not translated directly to small businesses continuing to hire at the same rate as before.
Last week’s massive drop in weekly jobless did not seem to repeat itself. That being said, jobless claims remain stubbornly low and signal a continuation of a good employment market. The U.S. Labor...
When it comes to Texas, most of us still think about the oil jobs. If you just read the headlines, you would think everything is great for the jobs market in Texas. But it may be far short of great...
While the reported number of the job openings and turnovers do not move the markets, they can confirm trends in the jobs market or they can show anomalies.
The Conference Board has released its Employment Trends Index, and this may show a marginally better or more favorable read than the Labor Department's read last week.
Each month's Labor Department Employment Situation report is given a 48-hour preview by the ADP Employment Report, which offers a directional bias on private sector payrolls.
The JOLTS report never really moves the stock or bond markets at all. What it does aim to do is to act as a confirmation tool that perhaps the number of job openings is on the decline.
Various economic releases have pointed out that hiring has become less robust of late. Maybe it is just the election, or maybe it is something worse.