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- Workers Without a Degree Twice as Likely to be Unemployed
- The U.S. Census is a treasure trove of information on worker trends. The 2006 American Community Survey gives mangers even more incentive to make higher education a priority. Workers with a bachelor's degree have a 2.7% unemployment rate -- less than half the 6.1% unemployment rate for high school graduates....
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Nation's low unemployment rate in April signals "worker heaven" Dow
- WASHINGTON AP -- The nation's unemployment rate tumbled below 5 percent last month for the first time in nearly a quarter-century, with job levels boosted by a robust, low-inflation economy.
- Research articles 1997-05-05
- Louisiana Economic Briefs: October 31, 2005
- Hurricane Katrina caused the state unemployment rate to double from August to September, the Louisiana Department of Labor announced. The preliminary September unemployment rate for Louisiana soared to 11.5 percent after Hurricane Katrina, marking the highest unemployment rate in the state since January 1987. The August unemployment rate was 5.8...
- Research articles 2005-10-31
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- Drop in Unemployment Rate, Rise in Job Creation Point to Recovery.
- By Barbara Clements, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 19--All signs seem to point toward recovery. The unemployment rate is coming down, both locally and nationally, while the number of jobs created -- 300,000 nationally in March...
- Research articles 2004-04-19
- Will There Be a 'New Normal' For Unemployment?
- In my last post, I wrote about the longer than usual time period I think it will take for unemployment to return to its normal, or full employment level, but I didn't define what normal unemployment is. An important question for policymakers is whether there will be "a new normal"...
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Infrastructure, shipping drive state revival: bank.
- Jul 03, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) South Australia SA is becoming a more hospitable business environment, says BankSA.The $6bn defence warship contract won in mid- 2005, the 19,000-worker Olympic Dam mine expansion and the opening of the Carnegie...
- Research articles 2005-07-04
- Goodwill Advocates Urge Congress to Invest in the American Worker
- More than 50 representatives from Goodwill Industries gathered on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, June 25, for approximately 170 meetings to urge Congress to make real investments in the American workforce. "In the United States, the overall unemployment rate continues to rise and the economy continues to soften,"...
- Research articles 2008-06-26
- The Living Low Paid | BTalk Australia
- (16min 48) There’s a concern that the unempoyment rate will rise this year, but what about those people working part-time for a low wage? It’s an increasing proportion of the Australian workforce yet it attracts little attention from policy makers. On today’s BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks...
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Labor Day Employment Report: If It's So Good, Why Do I Feel Bad?
- Another Friday, another employment report. The results are in - and the Labor Department said that 216,000 were given the heave-ho last in August, bringing the total number of Americans out of work since the beginning of the recession to 6.9 million. Yes, that was good news. ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Need to know: Segro sells site ... L'Oreal prettier ... Skype pact
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Inflation: Annual input price inflation for British manufacturers rose at an annual rate of 0.1 per cent in October, the first rise since February. Factory gate inflation also picked up, rising 1.7 per cent on the year in October, up from...
- News items 2009-11-06
- The jobs market: slowly getting less bad
- For the fifth week in a row, the number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits has dropped, according to the Labor Department. The number of initial claims came in at 457,000 for the week ending Nov. 28. That's the lowest level since September 2008. (The data are seasonally adjusted,...
- News items 2009-12-03
- Economists struggle to grasp new threshold of inflation
- WASHINGTON -- Unemployment and inflation are at their lowest in three decades, two economic facts that have helped cause the worker shortage now plaguing American businesses. Why is this happening? Call it Alan Greenspan's Grand Experiment. Inflation has remained docile despite strong economic growth. That has...
- Research articles 1999-06-17
- How to Forecast the Obama Economy?
- Brad DeLong submits: David Leonhardt writes: Mistake by Obama’s Advisers in Predicting Job Losses: In the weeks just before President Obama took office, his economic advisers made a mistake. They got a little carried away with hope. To make the case for a big stimulus package,...
- External links 2009-07-01
- Don't like Obamacare? Here's an alternative
- NEW YORK Fortune -- This is the second installment in a series of health-care columns by Fortune's Shawn Tully. Unlike the House bill that fills 1,100 pages, my proposed health-care plan can be expressed in four simple bullet points. The marketplace, with more than 100 million consumers writing their own...
- News items 2009-08-19
- Transcript of the President's Radio Address Dec. 6
- WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a transcript of the President's Radio Address to the nation: THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week we received additional reports that America's economy is gaining strength. In November, our nation added 57,000 new jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 5.9...
- Research articles 2003-12-06
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