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The Independence Day holiday has created a shortened week, and that means that the typical first-Friday unemployment and payrolls report will be released on Thursday morning.
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Lost in the battle over Greek debt and austerity is the fact that unemployment among people under 25 remains over 50%.
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While the U.S. unemployment rate hovers around 5.5% nationally, the jobless rate is 7% or more in Nevada and West Virginia.
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The trend of higher payrolls and job growth seen in the rest of the nation is also being seen in Texas.
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The U.S. Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims reading for the past week, and this appears to be the longest run under the 300,000 mark in 14 or 15 years.
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thinkstock.com Since it peaked at 9.6% in 2010, the U.S. annual unemployment rate has declined every year, reaching 6.2% in 2014. While the country may be on the path to full recovery from the...
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ThinkstockWhen you hear that employers cannot find workers, or that job seekers are not happy with the available jobs, some market and economic watchers scratch their heads. Now a new Bureau of Labor...
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While the number of people employed in the United States surged higher in May, the count of the long-term unemployed stayed at 2.4 million.
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Equity futures are treating the latest unemployment data as "good news is bad news" because it means that Federal Reserve hawks will have a stronger case to raise interest rates sooner than Yellen...
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Investors are getting a very mixed bag, albeit a positive mix, for previewing this Friday's unemployment and payrolls report from the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Most of the states with the highest unemployment rates have seen their labor markets rebound over the past year. In the past month, however, the unemployment rates of some of these states inched up.
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24/7 Wall St. has laid out 10 different reasons why the Federal Reserve is unlikely to hike interest rates too far or too fast.
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The Chicago Federal Reserve recently released a report showing its projections regarding the changing labor force composition and the natural rate of unemployment.
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Usually when people hear the word storm used, it means that catastrophe has struck. That just isn't always the case when it comes to the financial markets.
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ADP showed a projected 169,000 private sector jobs added in April, but TrimTabs estimates that some 327,000 jobs were created.
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