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- Unemployment Rate Cushioned By Government Hiring
- In July in some of the first good news the U.S. economy had seen in several months the unemployment rate actually declined slightly. It was down to 9.4 percent from about 9.6 percent. Many economists still predict it going higher as economic activity in the U.S. stagnates or...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Whose Recovery Is This?
- Like most recoveries, this has been an uneven one. Wall Street, women, and older workers are thriving, while Main Street, men, and younger workers are simply surviving. Our scorecard shows some of the recovery?s biggest winners and losers so far. Here’s another option: Just ask...
- Articles 2009-11-05
- Employment: Less Bad is Good
- The April employment report showed that the rate of job loss is tapering off. That's why investors celebrated the fact that "only" over a half million people lost their jobs in April and the unemployment rate was just 8.9 percent. It's like the doctor coming in and...
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- The Coming Jobless Recovery
- Now we are getting the clearest indication yet that we are headed for a jobless recovery. A total of 467,000 jobs were eliminated in June, bringing the jobless rate to 9.5 percent from 9.4 percent in May, according to the Labor Department. The jobless rate was the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Follow-Up on Employment: Conflicting Signals
- U.S. unemployment: are we at the end, or the end of the beginning, or what? Different sources give different answers, or rather, accommodate different interpretations. I think we still have a long way to go. This post comments further on ideas I considered yesterday in "In The Long Run, We're...
- Blog posts 2009-12-05
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- JOBLESS RATE UP TO 13.7%.
- The unemployment rate for September 1998 climbed to 13.7%, from 13.2% reported the same month in 1997, according to the Department of Labor and Human Resources, reports The San Juan Star (October 25, 1998). From August to September, the jobless rate also grew, from 12.8% to ...
- Research articles 1998-12-01
- JOBLESS RATE RISES.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Puerto Rico's unemployment rate reached 12.6% in September, up from the 9.8% registered in September 2000, according to the Department of Labor and Human Resources. Its monthly workforce survey showed that there were 164,000 people out of work, up 39,000 from a year earlier. Manufacturing took...
- Research articles 2001-12-01
- PUERTO RICO: Unemployment falls to 20-year low
- Puerto Rico's unemployment rate fell to 13% in February (vs. 13.8% in January), the lowest registered for that month in more than 20 years (it registered 12.8% in 1974), says the Department of Labor and Human Resources. The number of people working, according to a monthly ...
- Research articles 1995-05-01
- JOBLESS RATE AT 30-YEAR LOW.
- Puerto Rico's unemployment rate stood at 9.8% for September, the first time since 1970 it has dropped below double digits, said the Department of Labor and Human Resources, reports The San Juan Star (October 18, 2000). The number of people with jobs totaled...
- Research articles 2000-12-01
- 12.2% JOBLESS RATE.
- Puerto Rico's unemployment rate reached 12.2% in May 2002, up from 11.4% in May 2001, reports Caribbean Business (June 25, 2002). The Department of Labor and Human Resources' monthly household survey showed that employment in most sectors has shrunk, except for the Government and services...
- Research articles 2002-08-01
- PUERTO RICO: Jobless rate falls
- Unemployment in January 1995 fell 2.9 points to 13.8% compared with the previous January, says the Department of Labor and Human Resources. Manufacturing employed increased by 12,000 to 176,000 jobs in January. But Government remains the single largest employer (with roughly 29% of the total...
- Research articles 1995-04-01
- UNEMPLOYMENT UP TO 11.2%.(Brief Article)
- The jobless rate for April rose to 11.2% vs. 10% in April 2000, said the Department of Labor and Human Resources, reports The San Juan Star (May 15, 2001). Since early in the year, at least a dozen companies have announced plant closings or...
- Research articles 2001-07-01
- The OECD jobs study - Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development
- Nature and dimensions of unemploymentUnemployment in the OECD area of 35 million, some 8 1/2 per cent of the labour force, represents an enormous waste of human resources, reflects an important degree of inefficiency in economic systems, and involves a disturbing degree of social distress. The measured unemployment rate ranges...
- Research articles 1994-06-01
- Tight job market sends ops scrambling. (cable operators)
- The national unemployment rate is the lowest since 1973, and cable human-resources executives definitely feel the pinch. Low unemployment rates mean that cable's job pool teems with people who don't have basic job skills (that is, those who've ne The national unemployment...
- Research articles 1997-12-08
- Business briefs
- Jobless rate drops in holiday season The jobless rate in Kansas declined in December to 4.2 percent, reflecting historical seasonal changes, state labor officials said Monday. Unemployment improved from November's 4.6 percent, reflecting holiday hiring in the retail sector, said Acting Human Resources Secretary Jim Garner....
- Research articles 2003-01-28
- Business briefs
- - Unemployment down in April --- An expected increase in spring hiring by construction companies and other businesses pushed Kansas' unemployment rate down in April. The Department of Human Resources reported Tuesday that the jobless rate was 3.2 percent in April, down from 3.4 percent in March. The...
- Research articles 2000-05-24
- ITT Staffs Up While the Getting Is Good
- The U.S. aerospace and defense industry will likely shed 30,000 jobs this year. For ITT Corp., that's a lot of resumes to review. With the U.S. economy having shed 7 million jobs over the past 24 months, and the unemployment rate hovering at 9.4 percent, the highest rate in...
- Articles 2009-09-28
- Senate's chief climate denier makes Copenhagen cameo
- by Kevin Grandia The great leader of the Copen-deniers, U.S. Sen. James Inhofe R , showed up on the Danish island of Copenhagen for a fly-by press event here at the international climate treaty. Sen. Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican, speaking at an impromptu news conference...
- News items 2009-12-17
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