Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims, and the report showed a serious surge in new jobless claims. It also reverses a series of…
Wikimedia CommonsThere are several research firms and employee review websites that publish lists of the best places for people to work. The latest of these is from Glassdoor, the jobs and career online community.…
ThinkstockNew research show that women have not been able to break the glass ceiling at many large corporations, at least as measured by their numbers in senior management and on board. According to research…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department is out with what appears to be a stellar unemployment report for November. The good news is that the payrolls were not too far above whisper numbers after a strong…
GlassdoorGlassdoor has raised another round of venture backing. The company has closed upon a $50 million financing led by Tiger Global Management, which the company confirmed. A new investor joined it as Dragoneer Investment…
ThinkstockMore strong news is out on the jobs front. The U.S. Labor Department reported that weekly jobless claims fell to 298,000 in the latest week. Dow Jones was calling for about 320,000, and Bloomberg…
ThinkstockWe warned earlier this week that the Friday unemployment report may trash the stock market if it comes out too strong. If ADP is a prediction tool, then that is looking to be more…
thinkstock‘Tis the season for companies to try to cut the last little bit out of expenses so they can show investors that they can make the tough decisions and get that stock price back…
ThinkstockThis is going to sound a bit counterintuitive on the surface, but there is some good news in the American jobs market: more Americans are quitting their jobs. The U.S. Labor Department has issued…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department has reported a much larger drop in weekly jobless claims than was expected. The weekly jobless claims fell by 21,000 down to 323,000. Dow Jones and…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsLast Friday’s report from the Department of Labor was so strong, with more than 200,000 payrolls created in October, that we figured the report had to be riddled with errors.…
ThinkstockThe unemployment situation in the United States looked relatively good through the first half of the year. The jobless rate dropped to 7.3% in October from 7.9%% at the beginning of the year. However,…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe October Employment Situation Report from the Labor Department is showing that the government shutdown had almost no real impact to the private sector jobs market. We think that the…
ThinkstockOctober’s jobs report showed a gain of 204,000 people to nonfarm payrolls. That is a pace of 1.5 million job additions for 2013. Many earlier months have been better. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)…
ThinkstockIn a tracking survey that estimates the percentage of the U.S. population employed at least 30 hours a week, Gallup reports that the Payroll to Population (P2P) employment rate rose slightly from 43.5% in…