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Weekly Jobless Claims Fall; Payrolls Rise

Posted: July 5, 2012 at 10:14 am

The US Department of Labor said today that the seasonally adjusted number of new claims for unemployment benefits fell by 14,000 in the week ended June 30th, from a revised ...
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Americans Will Take Jobs They Don’t Want

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 5:47 am

Americans who need jobs will take jobs other than the ones they desire. A new Gallup poll says that "Six in 10 unemployed Americans say the next job they get ...
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The Ten Greatest Stock Market Years Of The Last Century

Posted: December 29, 2010 at 9:13 pm

There have been 10 calendar years during the last one hundred in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by more than 30%. The reason for the sharp increases were, ...
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The Nine Problems That Could Derail The Recovery in 2011

Posted: December 24, 2010 at 6:36 am

Lost in the optimistic talk about the economic recovery around the world are the things that brought the recession on and the new challenges which may appear next year. The ...
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The Ten States With The Most Unemployed Losing Benefits (And Seven That Will Lose None)

Posted: December 1, 2010 at 4:27 am

More than 2 million people receiving unemployment will lose coverage in December if Congress does not extend their benefits. In a report published in November, the Center on Budget and ...
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Euro Area Unemployment Stays At 10%

Posted: August 31, 2010 at 6:07 am

There is no economic recovery underway in Europe, which is not much of a surprise to anyone who has watched attempts to restart growth there. The unemployment level in the ...
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Unemployment Begins To Drop In Some Hardest Hit States

Posted: August 22, 2010 at 7:29 am

There is some silver lining to the relentless clouds of jobless news which included weekly initial unemployment filings which reached a ten month high last week of 500,000 A Bureau ...
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The States With The Highest Unemployment For The First Six Months

Posted: July 21, 2010 at 4:48 am

There are ten states which have had unemployment rates consistently above 10% for the first six months of the year.  Many also have desperate budget problems, a combination of high ...
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4.7 Workers For Every Job

Posted: July 14, 2010 at 5:22 am

The Labor Department said that in May there were 4.7 workers looking for work for each available job. Hiring rose during the month, but it due to Census workers getting ...
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June Unemployment: A Spectre Of A New Recession

Posted: July 2, 2010 at 8:45 am

The ghost of recessions past returned as the US moved into the same funk that it experience in 1982 and 1983 when joblessness was above 9.5% for nearly a year ...
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Does Killing Unemployment Benefits Kill The Economy?

Posted: June 29, 2010 at 7:45 pm

The House of Representatives failed to pass a bill to extend unemployment benefits until November. The number of people who would be covered is more than a 1.5 million and ...
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The American Economy: Making Money By Keeping People Unemployed

Posted: June 28, 2010 at 6:09 am

The secret to the amazing increases in productivity in the American economy is finally out. Companies in the US are not hiring full-time workers. They are gambling that they can ...
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Looking Back, The Fed Never Cut Enough

Posted: June 24, 2010 at 4:23 am

The housing market is in trouble, and perhaps enough trouble that it will be the one sector of the economy that will face  a  double-dip recession. The idea that housing ...
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The Fifteen Nations With The Highest Unemployment In The World

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 4:25 am

The global unemployment problem is so huge that the total number of jobless in the ten most populous nations in the world totals 1.1 billion. That is only slightly smaller ...
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Nevada Passes Michigan In Unemployment Rate, Motor State Held Top Spot Since April 2006

Posted: June 18, 2010 at 1:05 pm

After four years, Michigan lost its spot as the unemployment leader in the U.S., according to May numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unemployment fell in 37 states during ...
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