ThinkstockThe Business Roundtable (BRT) released its first-quarter CEO Economic Outlook Survey for 2013, showing that average CEO economic expectations for the coming six-month period have improved for first time in four quarters. Unfortunately, CEO…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe number of U.S. workers laid off or fired in January fell to a 12-year low of 1.51 million according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor.…
ThinkstockThe Conference Board has released its monthly Employment Trends Index for the month of February, and it very much confirms the strength seen in Friday’s nonfarm and private sector payrolls reports from the U.S. Department…
ThinkstockAcross the country, millions of people work in the public sector, including teachers, clerks and soldiers. The different levels of government employ 16% of U.S. workers, according to a recent Gallup survey. The federal…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsOK, so this is finally some rockin’ good news on the jobs front. The Labor Department is out with its key employment situation for the month of February. Due to…
ThinkstockThis morning brought on several key economic releases ahead of the key Friday jobs number and unemployment data from the Labor Department. The Challenger Job Cut Report came in at 55,356 for February, versus…
ThinkstockIt was just on Tuesday that we showed how so many jobs reports are coming out this week that could change the consensus for Friday’s key unemployment and payrolls report from the Labor Department. The…
ThinkstockThis is an unusual month because, due to a strange calendar in February, the monthly employment situation report by the U.S. Labor Department did not come on the first Friday of the month. This…
ThinkstockThe public remains awed every time a U.S. car company adds even a few employees. Perhaps that is because so many tens of thousands lost jobs during the recession and bankruptcies of General Motors…
ThinkstockEuro area unemployment rose again, a sign that austerity has not helped alleviate economic markets and likely has caused an erosion of jobs. According to Eurostat figures: The euro area (EA17) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 11.9% in January 2013,…
Wikimedia CommonsJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) announced it will cut 4,000 part-time jobs and another 13,000 contract positions in its mortgage business. The bank blamed weaknesses in the mortgage market and new…
ThinkstockFor some reason, investors and the rest of the world are fascinated by the decision of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) management to halt the ability of people to work from remote offices. Now, all…
ThinkstockThe economy has started to add jobs again, at a rate of 150,00 or better each month. Government data and that from private sector experts have shown that many of the jobs added are…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsWhen the Bureau of Labor Statistics issues its national employment numbers each month, private payrolls are separated from government payroll data, which includes federal, state and local workers. The separation…
ThinkstockWe had two reports on the labor situation in America this Thursday. The weekly jobless claims is of course very current, while the report on worker productivity and unit labor costs is a fourth-quarter…