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ThinkstockThe government calls them “people who are employed part time for economic reasons.” In other words, these people want full-time jobs, but cannot get them. More than seven million...
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ThinkstockIn a headline that hardly sounds like good news, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today that the unemployment rate for veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces at...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThursday’s jobs report from the U.S. Labor Department showed that weekly jobless claims rose by 5,000 to 320,000. The prior report was left unrevised at 315,000. Dow...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released data Monday on the unemployment rates in the 50 states and District of Columbia. The numbers changed very little in January, the period...
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courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) rarely makes the news for anything positive on its labor relations. The company employs over 2 million people, and it has become...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsCan weather be to blame for poor jobs numbers for three consecutive months? After two disappointing Labor Department reports on monthly payrolls, the Bureau of Labor...
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ThinkstockMany experts have pressed the theory that “normal” unemployment rates in a healthy economy should sit around 5%. As the jobs reports for the first part of this year are issued by the...
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ThinkstockDespite some very weak independent jobs reports seen so far this week, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that the number of weekly jobless claims fell by 26,000 to 323,000 in the latest...
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ThinkstockIt looks like the market is going to have to brace for yet another lackluster payrolls and unemployment report on Friday. Wednesday’s economic reports showed weak readings from the ADP...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThursday’s economic report calendar seemed to be good when you consider that the decline in durable goods was better than expected, but the Labor Department has...
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courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), under siege because of its labor practices, has decided to promote itself as a company which uses “made in America” goods and...
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ThinkstockDespite an improvement in the nation’s jobless rate, concern about unemployment has become the top worry among Americans. The news comes as the ranks of the long-term unemployed remain...
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Thinkstock Florida has staged a big comeback after years of high unemployment and one of the worst housing busts in recent memory. The state’s tourism industry posted record high results for a...
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Home Depot said Wednesday it expects to hire about 80,000 part-time workers for the spring season, the biggest selling season of the year. Rival Lowe's Companies has not announced its plans yet.
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ThinkstockDriven by a robust energy industry and a small population, North Dakota was ahead of all other states in terms of employee perceptions of job creation — for the fifth year in a row. Rhode...
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