Posts related to ‘Jobs’

State Unemployment Rates Post Little Change in April

Posted: May 17, 2013 at 1:04 pm

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today released its data on state and regional unemployment for April. Compared with March data, unemployment rates fell in 40 states and the ...
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HSBC Will Cut Jobs

Posted: May 15, 2013 at 6:55 am

The brutal drive toward operating efficiency that many large companies adopted during the recession continues, despite what most economists call a recovery. Cost cuts are not any more evident than ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims at a Five-Year Low

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 9:25 am

The Labor Department's report on weekly jobless claims continues to go against many of the headlines we are seeing elsewhere. Last week brought a drop to 323,000, the lowest weekly ...
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States Where Teenagers Cannot Find Work

Posted: May 8, 2013 at 6:56 am

For the past four and a half years, teen unemployment has exceeded 20%. As of April 2013, 24.1% of teens seeking jobs were unable to find work, according to a ...
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Jobs Crisis More Long-Term Than Unemployment Rates Show

Posted: May 3, 2013 at 6:26 am

The extent of the jobs crisis extends well beyond the measurements released by the Labor Department and ADP each month. One reason for this that is cited frequently is the ...
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IBM Cuts Workers’ Hours to Save Money

Posted: May 2, 2013 at 12:43 pm

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has ordered staffing contractor CDI Corp. (NYSE: CDI) to reduce the number of hours CDI’s employees bill Big Blue to no more than 36 ...
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Ford Adds Jobs to Keep Up F-150 Production

Posted: May 2, 2013 at 6:40 am

Sales of the Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) F-150 flagship pickup have surged so strongly that the U.S. car company will add workers to build more of them. Analysts have ...
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Shale and a Sharp Increase in Jobs

Posted: April 30, 2013 at 6:23 am

Now that shale has become a major source of energy, economists have started to argue the extent to which it can boost the U.S. economy. If North Dakota, one of ...
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German Unemployment Up in March, EU Recession Looms

Posted: April 30, 2013 at 6:22 am

Germany's jobless rate rose by a very modest amount in April, but the story is that it rose at all. Germany has started to teeter close to recession, as its ...
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Oil Rig Worker Ranked as 5th Worst Job in America

Posted: April 29, 2013 at 4:11 pm

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