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The Labor Department is out with another improvement in the weekly jobless claims. Hopefully it is not just holiday related, but investors will likely take it either way. This last week’s...
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We already saw the rate cut from the European Central Bank this Thursday morning. Now it is time for the U.S. Labor Department’s weekly announcement on jobless claims. The report put the last...
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The U.S. Labor Department has reported on November unemployment and non-farm payrolls this morning on the heels of a weak jobless claims figure yesterday. Non-Farm Payrolls grew by 120,000 for...
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The Heldrich Center at Rutgers has issued a new report that says only 7% of people who lost their jobs after the financial crisis have made it back to their former levels of work and financial...
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College graduates with student loans owed an average of $25,250 in 2010, an all-time high and a 5% increase, according to a recent report. What makes matters worse is that students graduating in 2010...
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Unemployment continued to gnaw at some of the most economically troubled regions of the US. States with statistically significant employment changes from August 2011 to September 2011, seasonally...
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The reading on the weekly jobless claims were down marginally after a slight revision higher from the prior week’s report. The Labor Department reported that weekly jobless claims were down 1,000...
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The weekly jobless claims from the Labor Department is not showing any hope for a surprise win on the unemployment and non-farm payrolls data due Friday morning. The report from the prior week was...
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Weekly jobless claims are heading the wrong way and all we can hope is that there is some hurricane and storm bump that has been in this report. The Labor Department, which should soon be called...
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Americans can see the writing on the wall. The economy is no longer creating new jobs. August unemployment was flat. Private sector job additions have slowed to a few thousand a month. These...
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The U.S. Census Bureau released two pieces of widely followed data yesterday — one on poverty and the other on median income for 2010. The most interesting findings in this release were the...
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A Gallup poll taken last month showed that confidence in the economy has fallen to its lowest level since March 2009, which was near the low point of The Great Recession. A growing and vocal minority...
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The job market has remained relatively stagnant since 2009. To make matters worse, the educational requirements of the average U.S. employer have increased consistently from 2005 to 2009, recently...
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The count is growing… Weekly jobless claims as a figure is still headed the wrong way and still above that awful 400,000 line. The Labor Department reported that jobless claims in the last week...
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