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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has some good news, particularly in light of the Commerce Department revising first-quarter GDP to -1.0%. Weekly jobless claims fell by 27,000, down to 300,000, in...
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ThinkStockThe Markit Flash U.S. Services Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) jumped 6.2% to 58.4 for May, according to a Markit report released today, showing its fastest rate of growth in 26 months....
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The most recent weekly jobless claims have been released by the U.S. Labor Department, and they show a big jump in the wrong direction. Jobless claims rose by a sharp 28,000 to 326,000 in the past...
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ThinkstockThe United States of America — the land of opportunity — has the fourth most uneven income distribution in the developed world. Chile has the most unequal distribution of income, while...
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ThinkstockWhile it is good to see the national unemployment rate drop, it is even better to see the improvement spread across virtually the entire country. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with yet another weekly jobless claims report, but this one was a much better-than-expected surprise. Weekly claims plummeted by 24,000...
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ThinkstockVermont’s legislature did what many members of Congress and the president would like to do. It raised the minimum wage in the state to $10.10 from $8.73. The federal minimum wage is...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department reading on the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (the JOLTS report) showed that some 4.014 million job openings were available in the United States on the...
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courtesy of Radio ShackRadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) has backed away from plans, announced in March, to close 1,100 stores. Two of the retailers’ large creditors refused to support the plan. The...
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While the trend for payrolls and unemployment has been better, the great compression in weekly jobless claims had not been continuing at the same rate as of late. Thursday’s weekly jobless claims...
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Courtesy Starbucks Corp.After a solid jobs report on Friday and after more good news from the Conference Board on Monday, two more economic barometers are signaling that growth is resuming in the...
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ThinkstockThe Conference Board Employment Trends Index rose in the month of April, a trend that coincides perfectly with the Labor Department report from last Friday. The so-called ETI rose to 118.0...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsVarious data was supporting a strong jobs number for this Friday, and the Labor Department confirmed an even stronger jobs number than what TrimTabs and ADP had...
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The U.S. Labor Department is out with a very disappointing weekly jobless claims report. Sadly, this is after both ADP and TrimTabs signaled a stronger payrolls base for the key unemployment and...
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ThinkstockAmericans spend much of their day at work, and more than half of Americans rated their overall work environment poorly last year. Although the number of workers who gave their workplace a...
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