Flickr, James SarmientoA group from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute has come out with an extraordinary analysis of the labor market and its relationship to educational attainment. It is titled “The College Advantage: Weathering…
Between June 2011 and June 2012 the nation added more than 1.7 million jobs. At the same time, the number of government jobs fell by more 200,000. While the national economy has improved since…
Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) may be the first of the large Web 2.0 companies that has gone public in the past year to lay off workers. At least it should be. The public corporation’s…
We’ve noted already that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) are defying today’s sell-off trend and that the search giant got an upgrade to ‘overweight’ with a $775 price target from…
The slowdown in global economic growth is taking a toll on FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the company today announced a move to try to cut expenses. The company will offer voluntary buyout incentives…
Balancing work and personal life is often tricky, especially without the support of employers. According to a recent survey conducted by Glassdoor, a jobs and career website where employees can post reviews about their…
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Federal Reserve president John Williams said that the slow economic recovery and the continuing high unemployment have persuaded him that the Fed needs to…
Greece may not be very large by gross domestic product or population, but it could be the single most important test for the effects of austerity. Its unemployment rate is now 23.1%, second only…
The report on second-quarter productivity and unit labor costs is out from the Labor Department after last week’s surprise nonfarm payrolls gains. Productivity (hourly output) rose by 1.6% versus -0.5% in the first quarter,…
A new poll from Gallup shows that people who live in North Dakota report the best hiring situations among their employers, compared with people in any other state. With an index of 34, North…
The U.S. Labor Department said in its latest Job Openings and Turnover Survey that job openings at U.S. workplaces rose to 3.76 million in June from 3.66 million in May. Year over year, job…
The story of American business has been about shipping the country’s manufacturing jobs overseas. However, there is another part of the story. Every year, American companies hire thousands of highly skilled foreign workers. Read:…
Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the U.S. gained 163,000 new jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis. But the nonadjusted numbers tell a very different story. Nonfarm employment in the U.S.…
As the intellectual property lawsuit of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) against Samsung in Australia progressed, the South Korean company has accused the American one of tampering with witnesses. According to Slash Gear: For the…
Every month, the U.S. Department of Labor announces the official unemployment figures. On Friday, it reported that the unemployment rate rose from 8.2% to 8.3%, and immediately the news captured the headlines. Politicians from…