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ThinkstockWhen you see reports of thousands of layoffs, it has to be a stark reminder that this recovery’s continuation likely will have to depend on the growth and success of small businesses in...
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ThinkstockThe Conference Board’s Employment Trends Index rose in August to 113.54 from an upwardly revised 112.80 in July. While the number on the surface is small, it should stand out that the...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsIf you have been watching the jobs data ahead of the unemployment report, chances are high that you would have looked for a decent to good report on Friday. The Labor...
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ThinkstockIn a tracking survey that estimates the percentage of the U.S. population employed at least 30 hours a week, Gallup reports that the Payroll to Population (P2P) employment rate fell from...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThis may be right after Labor Day, but the economic reports will be flowing heavily this week and peaking with the U.S. Labor Department report on the employment...
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ThinkstockNew data from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco about the stubborn presence of part-time workers in the U.S. economy: Part-time work spiked during the recent recession and has...
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ThinkstockBased on recent national unemployment rates, it would appear that job creation has improved sharply from when the economy was shedding half a million jobs a month and the jobless rate rose...
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ThinkstockLabor Day is a holiday meant to honor the working man and the working woman. Its roots are more than 100 years old now. The question that comes to mind in today’s age of high unemployment...
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ThinkstockBecause of a major decline in jobs during the recession, the number of nonfarm workers is up just 5% over the past 10 years. While the past decade’s painful recession and the slow job...
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ThinkstockNo one can question that the overall unemployment rate has fallen from a monthly crest of more than 10% at the peak of the recession toward 7% recently. In several states, the figure has...
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ThinkstockFargo, N.D., perhaps most associated with the Academy Award winning movie that many critics believed was the best of 1996, has become the jobs capital of the United States. The city’s...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its weekly jobless claims. The past week’s report rose by 5,000 to 333,000. The Dow Jones and Bloomberg estimates called for...
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ThinkstockThis should sound familiar to you: “We are tying shot-term interest rates to the unemployment rate.” This is a message you have heard from Ben Bernanke and the U.S. Federal Reserve for...
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ThinkstockIceland generally does well according to most socioeconomic measures. Its citizens tend to be healthy, well-paid and content. It’s no surprise that the Scandinavian country has the lowest...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsFriday’s Labor Department report on the employment situation is now out. July’s unemployment rate fell to 7.4% from 7.6% in June, which was under the Bloomberg...
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