courtesy Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Supporters of an effort by District of Columbia lawmakers to set required private company pay well above the national minimum will regret the day they passed a bill to do so. D.C. needs the jobs.…
The average U.S. worker was paid $1,000 per week as of the fourth quarter of 2012. This is, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a 4.7% increase from 2011. In the vast majority…
ThinkstockThe Bureau of Labor Statistics may have released its key employment situation last Friday for the month of June, but there is an interesting report showing the May data on total number of job…
ThinkstockThe Conference Board has released its latest Employment Trends Index (ETI), showing that employment edged higher in June, although there is some real concern here about the forward trends. The report may seem to…
ThinkstockCorporate earnings are expected to be poor for the second quarter, perhaps the worst in three years, or the worst since the end of the recession. Each of these predictions has been made with…
ThinkstockWhen people think of high-tech jobs, they typically think of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Ivy League Ph.D.s. But according to a new definition of STEM jobs — those requiring skills in science, technology, engineering…
ThinkstockBeing an employee of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) over the past 10 years must have been the greatest feeling in the world. Unfortunately all good things come to an end at some point. Shortly…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today released its data on state and regional unemployment for May. Compared with April data, unemployment rates fell in 25 states , while…
ThinkstockFor Americans who have nothing to do once their workdays end, watching television fills in many of the hours. Perhaps people have more time on their hands as many do not have to commute.…
ThinkstockLess than a third of the nation’s workers were actively engaged in their jobs last year, according to a Gallup report released this week. Gallup’s State of the American Workplace showed that an additional…
Thursday finally brought on a lot of new economic data for investors to peruse from the Labor Department and Commerce Department. This on the heels of several days in a row of almost no…
courtesy of IBMInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is showing employees that the company must be one of the worst technology companies to work for, period! Reports are out that IBM is starting that…
ThinkstockWages of many workers in the United Kingdom have collapsed recently. The causes of some these drops also exist in the United States, where real income has been stagnant for a decade. The problem…
ThinkstockOne in every five jobs in the United States required a high level of knowledge in science, technology, engineering or math as of 2011. Since the industrial revolution, the share of these kinds of…
ThinkstockJob creation likely will be capped by the tepid growth of most large economies. Europe in particular will be a drag on a global jobs recovery. Without the addition of ten of millions of…