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Can America Add Four Million Jobs in 2012?

Posted: January 6, 2012 at 6:42 am

America must add four million jobs next year to significantly eat away at the employment loss of the past four years. More than 16 million citizens are out of work in ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Only Somewhat Augment Giant ADP Figures Before Unemployment

Posted: January 5, 2012 at 8:37 am

After a sizzling hot figure from ADP on private sector jobs created, the weekly jobless claims from the U.S. Labor Department came in with a drop of 15,000 to 372,000 ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Move Back In Wrong Direction

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 8:37 am

The U.S. Labor Department is out with its reading on weekly jobless claims.  After some improvements in the weeks before, the tally of claims rose by 15,000 to 381,000.  Bloomberg ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Maintain Good Stance Started The Prior Week

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 8:40 am

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 ...
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Eight Countries With Credit Ratings Set to Rise Next Year

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 12:14 pm

It seems that all of the nations around the world are facing sovereign credit ratings downgrades or warnings of downgrades. After the United States lost its prized "AAA" rating, the threat of downgrades ...
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Finally… Some (Real) Good News From The Labor Department on Claims & Inflation

Posted: December 15, 2011 at 8:43 am

The U.S. Labor Department is full of good news this morning.  Both the weekly jobless claims and the producer price index as a measure of wholesale inflation came in better ...
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Freddie Mac 2012 Outlook Seems Too Rosy

Posted: December 14, 2011 at 1:37 pm

Freddie Mac has released its full "U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook" for December, which is actually the government sponsored entity's 2012 outlook for the housing market and the economy ...
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As More Despair Sets In, Workers Would Take Benefit Reductions

Posted: December 12, 2011 at 6:30 am

The job market remains tight enough, and people remain concerned enough about their current employment, that many would accept cuts in vacation time and benefits. The news stands as another ...
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Jobs Where People Work the Most for the Least

Posted: December 12, 2011 at 6:30 am

The average person in the U.S. works just over 2,000 hours per year, or 39.5 per week, and is paid $37,128 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Hit Nine Month Low

Posted: December 8, 2011 at 8:36 am

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 ...
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The Biggest Corporate Layoffs of All Time

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 6:50 am

Eleven American companies have laid off a total of nearly 600,000 people in the past two decades. Each also fired a large number of employees at one time to earn ...
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U.S. Post Office Will Cut Service, Close Processing Stations

Posted: December 5, 2011 at 2:24 pm

In a more detailed explanation of planned service cuts floated last September, the U.S. Postal Service has now published some details to its cuts in first-class mail delivery and the ...
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The Magic Drop in Unemployment

Posted: December 2, 2011 at 8:38 am

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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Those Who Lost Jobs in the Recession Also Lost Ground

Posted: December 2, 2011 at 6:21 am

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 ...
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Jobless Claims Heading Wrong Way, No Help For Unemployment Friday

Posted: December 1, 2011 at 8:44 am

The U.S. Labor Department has issued its coverage of weekly jobless claims.  There may be some volatility due to the report being around the Thanksgiving holiday week, but the figures ...
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