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- How Long Will The Recession Last?
- How Long Will The Recession Last?RE: How Long Will The Recession Last?You're right that we aren't formally in a recession. The unemployment numbers are accelerating at a rate not seen before without one occurring, but it hasn't happened yet. as for dealing with the problem, perhaps the government is...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
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- Unemployment Report: It Just Ain't Labor's Day
- So the headline number on unemployment is 9.7%. That alone might be enough to send people into the last weekend of summer with the sense that the economy has a long winter ahead of it. But ugly as that 0.3 percentage point jump in the closely watched number is, a...
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Part-Time Work Helps Hold Down Unemployment
- The March report on US employment was grim, and is certain to become worse. The unemployment insurance report on April 9 showed another 600,000 new claims, and U.S. corporations already have announced something like 150,000 future job cuts, according to outplacement consultants Challenger, Gray & Christmas. But...
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- Unemployment Rate Rises; Analysts Say Nation's Economic Woes Are Not over.
- By Bill Atkinson, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 3--In a sign that the economy's problems are far from over, the nation's unemployment rate rose to 6 percent in April as businesses lopped thousands of workers from their payrolls for...
- Research articles 2003-05-03
- Some things you should know about those unemployment numbers
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its monthly Employment Situation report this morning, and you've surely already seen the headlines about 524,000 in job losses and a 7.2% employment rate. But I thought it would be helpful to go through the basics, as in times like these lots of people...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Lenders Say Unemployment and Mortgage Refinancing Don't Mix
- Last week's bit of unwelcome news: Michigan's unemployment rate has shot up to 12.6 percent in March. At least that's the official unemployment rate. The unofficial unemployment rate (which includes everyone who has stopped looking for a job, or who is working part-time instead of full-time, or who gave up and...
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Long-Term Unemployment Numbers: Increasing and Troublesome
- Many recent economic data releases aren't making sense to a wide swath of the American population. Specifically, a number of data series' - such as new/existing home sales, home prices, GDP, mortgage originations, and now even The Employment Situation - would seem to indicate that the economy has spent the...
- External links 2009-08-07
- Despite Ugly Numbers, Unemployment May Be Poised to Improve
- June unemployment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics paint an ugly picture as to recovery hopes, but employment in both the general economy and in retail may be poised to improve. An unemployment review conducted by outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which tracks job cut plans...
- Blog posts 2009-07-03
- Unemployment Hits Credit Card Debt
- The rising unemployment rate is taking its toll on credit card debt. Outstanding loans are declining and loan defaults are rising. It's expected to get much worse as unemployment, which reached 9.5 percent in June, rises to more than 10 percent in the coming months. According to...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- Friday's Unemployment Numbers Only Tell Half the Story
- FinancialSpiltMilk submits: The media-published unemployment numbers out Friday only tell half the story. In case you missed it, 524,000 more jobs were lost, with unemployment going to 7.2% (and that is the government-massaged number). Why do I say it is a massaged number? Because the BLS adjusts the...
- External links 2009-01-10
- Australian Unemployment Rate 5.8% in Oct
- A strong rise in total employment in October will give the Reserve Bank of Australia RBA confidence to lift interest rates for a third straight month in December, economists say.The nation added 24,500 jobs in October, according to figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics published on Thursday.The median...
- News items 2009-11-12
- Weekly Unemployment Claims: 26 Year High
- The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims: In the week ending Dec. 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 586,000, an increase of 30,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 556,000. The 4-week moving average was 558,000, an increase of 13,750 from the previous week's...
- News items 2009-08-07
- British unemployment falls for 13th month
- LONDON AFP ? British unemployment fell for the 13th month in a row in June to remain at its lowest point for nearly 29 years. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits dropped by 9,600 to 850,900, the lowest level since August 1975, National Statistics said Wednesday. Analysts had...
- Research articles 2004-07-14
- British unemployment hits new 29-year low
- LONDON AFP — British unemployment fell for the 15th month in a row in August to reach the lowest level for 29 years, official figures showed. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell by 6,100 to 830,200, the lowest level since July 1975, National Statistics said. Analysts...
- Research articles 2004-09-15
- Assessing the American Labor Market Collapse: What Should Our Yardstick Be?
- Brad DeLong submits: While the headline unemployment number is still only 8.1%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports in Table A-12: Alternative measures of labor underutilization that "total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian...
- External links 2009-03-08
- Unemployment System Troubles Many Washington State Employers.
- By Lisa Heyamoto, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 18--Created to alleviate strife born of the Depression, Washington's unemployment program began in 1937. Employers pay an unemployment tax based on the number of their workers who receive...
- Research articles 2003-02-18
- On Shorting Gold and Silver, Unemployment, and Taxpayer Backed Loans
- Economic Disconnect submits: Unemployment Graphical AnalysisWhile there are many ways to gauge unemployment, a great parameter to look at was brought up by David Rosenberg in a piece published over at The Big Picture click for larger view: Number of Unemployed per Number of Job OpeningsI can back this...
- External links 2009-07-02
- Unemployment: Emotional Cost Behind the Figures
- Scene: Corporate elevator Employee #1: "Monday morning-ugh!" Employee #2: "I'm so happy to still have my job that I can't even complain about Mondays!" As economists focus on signs of economic recovery and investors rejoice in stock market gains, there's a...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Jobs Report: Unemployment Breaks 10%
- 10.2% -- that's the most important number from the October Employment Report. For the first time since 1983, the over 1 out of every 10 American is out of work. How's that for starting your Friday with some sobering news? The 190,000 jobs...
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Unemployment rates for women in the OECD
- WOMEN HAVE considerably higher unemployment rates than men in a number of OECD countries, according to a report funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. While the gap between unemployment rates for men and women was found to be small in some countries, in others it was very large....
- Research articles 2004-09-01
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