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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen reminded the audience at the Federal Reserve's annual retreat in Jackson, Wy., that the labor market has yet to fully recover.
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The U.S. Department of Labor has released its reading on weekly jobless claims. People who applied for jobless benefits decreased by 14,000 to 298,000. This was a decline from the previous level of...
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courtesy of the Federal ReserveThe Federal Reserve has released the minutes of its July 29 to 30 FOMC meeting. While it has been broadly expected that the Fed will keep rates on hold, there is one...
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ThinkstockThe national jobless rate continues to hover above 6% and, based on several government forecasts, will not drop below the 5% that marks a complete economic recovery for several years....
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ThinkstockAccording to the International Labour Organization, last year 200 million people across the world were unemployed. Yet, according to performance management consulting firm Gallup, “this...
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The U.S. Department of Labor has released its weekly jobless claims. The number of people who applied for jobless benefits increased back above the 300,000 level to 311,000 claims. This was an...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has released its report on weekly jobless claims. We were wondering just on Wednesday whether the prior trend of higher claims would continue, and now we have that...
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ThinkstockWhile the labor market has improved significantly since the depths of the recession in 2009, high underemployment may be an indication that the economy is still struggling. As of the first...
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ThinkstockThe Conference Board Employment Trends Index, the so-called ETI, has been released for the month of July. It looks a tad better than Friday’s unemployment and payrolls report. July’s...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department managed to release its July unemployment and payrolls report without spooking the markets into a panic that rate hikes and the end of stimulus...
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ThinkstockThe recovery has been marked by a sharp drop in unemployment, which may fall below 6% in the next month or two. However, as notes from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) showed, the...
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ThinkstockThe public, market watchers, investors and traders of all walks will be watching Friday’s payrolls and unemployment reports from the U.S. Department Labor. 24/7 Wall St. wanted to...
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ThinkstockThe markets have been digesting much employment data ahead of Friday’s unemployment report, but now the market will have to deal with some wage inflation. A Labor Department report on...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims, and the major score from the prior week was not followed. Weekly jobless claims rose by...
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ThinkstockThis week is a very busy week for employment data. We are still awaiting the Friday unemployment and payrolls report from the Labor Department, but we now have two preliminary views that...
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