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Houston Leads Top Five Cities in Job Creation, as Riverside, Calif., Lags

Posted: March 27, 2013 at 6:16 am

All job creation is local, which makes national unemployment numbers flawed as a measure overall economic activity. Nothing shows this better than recent data on job creation by city, although ...
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State Employment Improvement — the Rich Get Richer

Posted: February 7, 2013 at 6:27 am

State unemployment can only improve so much if the states with the highest jobless rates do not have a turnaround in hiring, obviously. So far, that has not been the ...
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Contradictory Data on Employment

Posted: July 5, 2012 at 5:59 am

Most information about the employment situation in the United States shows that a rise in joblessness already has begun. GDP growth has fallen. Uncertainly about taxes in 2013 has made ...
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Yet Another Sign Of Jobs Improvement

Posted: April 4, 2012 at 9:07 am

ADP says private firms added 209,000 workers last month. The market was disappointed that the number was not better, but at least job growth is a regular part of the ...
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Nine US Cities Where Jobs Are Booming

Posted: April 2, 2012 at 6:41 am

According to a recent survey, the recovery is in full swing in America’s largest cities. Last week, Gallup released results of its Job Creation Index for the 50 largest metropolitan ...
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Troubled U.S. Cities Still Face Jobs Problems

Posted: March 29, 2012 at 6:37 am

New data from Gallup show that some cities that suffered the worst jobs losses during the recession have the lowest job creation now. The five metropolitan areas at the bottom ...
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Drop in Public Workers Digs a Deeper Jobs Hole

Posted: January 16, 2012 at 6:22 am

The fear that a drop in public sector jobs could undermine overall national employment has become a reality. The economy may have added an average of over 100,000 jobs each of ...
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