courtesy of Starbucks In a press release Wednesday morning, Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) announced that it plans to hire 10,000 U.S. military veterans and active duty spouses in the next five years. The company…
ThinkstockThis Friday we will get to see the October nonfarm payroll number and unemployment rates from the Labor Department. Unfortunately, the tone is going from bad to worse. Last week a report from ADP…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department may be delaying its unemployment report a few days late after the federal government shutdown, but we are still getting to see the weekly jobless claims…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department may be late this month with the unemployment and nonfarm payrolls report, but the ADP payrolls data is giving a weaker-than-expected look at the jobs market. ADP has reported that…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department is back open and is dribbling out its economic reports again. Thursday morning’s report was on weekly jobless claims, and the figure came in as a drop of 12,000 to…
ThinkstockThe federal government may have been closed, but the Labor Department did manage to get another weekly jobless claims report out. Due to imbalances in California and elsewhere, we are not willing to endorse…
ThinkstockPlanned job cuts in the third quarter rose 25% from a year ago. With September jobs cuts up 19% from last year, it represented the fourth month in a row in which job cuts…
ThinkstockWhen telecom giant Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU) announced Tuesday morning that it would cut 10,000 jobs and make other changes to cut costs, it could have been predicted that the company would get some…
ThinkstockNormally the morning of the monthly jobs report, released at 8:30 a.m., is a frenzy of speculation about how many jobs the economy added in the past month and what the national unemployment rate was.…
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 fell from 43.7% in August…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is, at least as of last look, not expected to release the unemployment situation and the nonfarm payrolls report on Friday due to the government shutdown.…
ThinkstockBecause the federal government has shut down, there is unlikely to be a formal unemployment report for the month of September from the Labor Department this Friday. That made Wednesday’s ADP National Employment Report…
ThinkstockWhen you see reports of thousands of layoffs, it has to be a stark reminder that this recovery’s continuation likely will have to depend on the growth and success of small businesses in America.…
ThinkstockThe conventional wisdom says that U.S. manufacturing jobs are disappearing. That’s really not arguable. What is arguable is the reason for and the impact of that disappearance on U.S. workers and gross domestic product.…
It seems hard to believe if you only listen to the media, but pension plans in America actually may be continuing to improve. A strong stock market, a solid private equity market and strong real…