Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsFrom time to time, one polling company or another asks Americans whether they believe the Great Recession has ended. A substantial portion of them say no, and that opinion is…
ThinkstockMen are not the primary bread winners in more and more homes. The effects on them may be devastating emotionally, but the recession turned a centuries-old trend against them. New Pew Research data on…
ThinkstockThe job market always has been broken in two by employment experts. One segment is the employment among firms with 100 positions or less. The other is at bigger companies, which range, for measurement purposes,…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsWeekly jobless claims data have been released by the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics and may offer at least some support for a very weak equity market this…
ThinkstockNetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) is reporting its fourth-quarter corporate earnings and it is throwing in a larger share buyback plan and is initiating a dividend payment to support the news. The storage provider had…
ThinkstockThe message you need to send to Washington D.C. is that consumer spending is outshining the ill effects of the sequestration cuts. A new report from the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) is…
ThinkstockThe number of Americans receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) more-than doubled over the past two decades, from 5.2 million to 11.7 million by the end of 2011. The number of residents receiving disability…
ThinkstockThe US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today released its data on state and regional unemployment for April. Compared with March data, unemployment rates fell in 40 states and the District of Columbia, while…
ThinkstockOn Monday, LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD) revised the user agreement for its online professional network to exclude certain businesses and at least one profession. The company said that it has always forbidden its users…
ThinkstockThe brutal drive toward operating efficiency that many large companies adopted during the recession continues, despite what most economists call a recovery. Cost cuts are not any more evident than at banks, which for…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department’s report on weekly jobless claims continues to go against many of the headlines we are seeing elsewhere. Last week brought a drop to 323,000, the lowest weekly…
ThinkstockFor the past four and a half years, teen unemployment has exceeded 20%. As of April 2013, 24.1% of teens seeking jobs were unable to find work, according to a report released this week.…
ThinkstockLast Friday’s unemployment report managed to come in much better than anticipated. Some even may have questioned whether the computers at the Labor Department were making proper calculations and tabulations again. A new report…
ThinkstockUnemployment in Spain has been above 24% for several months, and there is nothing about the nation’s economy that will reverse that. The central government has complained that austerity is the cause, as have…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department is out with the April Employment Situation Report, and it is a report that the market will view positively. Some are going to question the unemployment rate…