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flickr/incendiarymindOver the past three decades in the U.S., income from labor (wages, salaries, pensions, etc.) has been declining even as…
Worker productivity is among the most critical measurements used when evaluating businesses and national economies. One way to measure productivity…
Toys”R”Us will add 45,000 temporary jobs for the holidays. As retailers usually announce, some of these people may get full-time…
From October through December last year, U.S. retail payrolls added 660,200 workers according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.…
Chinese state media reported Monday on a mass brawl among up to 2,000 workers at a Foxconn plant in Taiyuan,…
Why does the stock market keep rising? Apparent reasons for it to do so have begun to disappear. The S&P 500…
Breaking with its past practice, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) said today that it plans to hire about 50,000 seasonal…
The United States is becoming a one of the lower-cost manufacturing centers in the world, according to a new study…
The U.S. Labor Department has released the latest report of weekly jobless claims. After the claims had been trending in…
The math is very crude. The Wall Street Journal reports that Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC), still desperate to turn…
In 2010, U.S. firms hired an estimated 627,000 temporary workers to help meet demand for customer service, package handling and…
Coal miner Alpha Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: ANR) announced today that it was “idling” eight mines in Virginia, West Virginia…
Gallup released a poll that shows what almost everyone already knows. More than 60% of people with college educations and…
A person who graduated from Dartmouth last year was expected to make $51,600 in his or her first job. It makes sense.…
The most recent Gallup unemployment survey reported that the unadjusted U.S. unemployment rate in mid-September fell from 8.1% in August…
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