The weekly jobless claims data from the Labor Department showed a continued trend of improvement this morning. The new jobless claims fell by 12,000 to 367,000 in the week ended January 28. The reading…
The Challenger jobs data for January is offering another preview of data for Friday’s non-Farm and unemployment data from the Labor Department. The January cuts were 53,486 and that is up 28% from December…
ADP is out with its pre-unemployment data for the month of January. The effort aims to front-run the Labor Department’s non-Farm Payrolls projections. The new report from ADP is predicting that U.S. private sector…
EU leaders want to put aside as much as 22 billion euro to stimulate youth employment in the region. The sum is not likely to be enough because more than 5 million young people…
The Labor Department is out with data on the weekly jobless claims. While the week was ahead of a three-day weekend, the report showed that weekly jobless claims fell by a whopping 52,000 down…
The fear that a drop in public sector jobs could undermine overall national employment has become a reality. The economy may have added an average of over 100,000 jobs each of the past six months.…
The US Labor Department’s reading on weekly jobless claims rose by 24,000 to 399,000 and there was a revised higher figure. The prior week’s 373,000 was revised higher to 375,000. Some of the claims…
The Obama Administration introduced its latest job creation plan with great fanfare. The president gathered business leaders and offered examples of how many of them had brought jobs sent overseas back into the U.S.…
In May 2011, a propane industry association, the National Propane Gas Association, cheered the introduction of a bill introduced in the US House that would have extended subsidy payments to propane industry in an…
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported this morning that the number of US job openings at the end of November totaled 3.16 million, down slightly from the 3.22 million jobs available at…
The U.S. Labor Department is out with the Decemberber unemployment and non-Farm payrolls data. After a huge upside surprise from this week’s ADP payrolls data being almost double expectations, the expectations for payrolls has…
America must add four million jobs next year to significantly eat away at the employment loss of the past four years. More than 16 million citizens are out of work in the U.S. That puts…
After a sizzling hot figure from ADP on private sector jobs created, the weekly jobless claims from the U.S. Labor Department came in with a drop of 15,000 to 372,000 for the week. Bloomberg…
The U.S. Labor Department is out with its reading on weekly jobless claims. After some improvements in the weeks before, the tally of claims rose by 15,000 to 381,000. Bloomberg had estimates at 372,000…
The Labor Department is out with another improvement in the weekly jobless claims. Hopefully it is not just holiday related, but investors will likely take it either way. This last week’s jobless claims fell…