U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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The Job Market's Hottest Industries

Snapbridge Publishing House 7 days ago

Who doesn't want a new job? It's the basic human desire to want something new/different/more. And in a country as work-inclined and career-obsessed as ours, that desire more often than not expresses itself in thoughts of career change. But you've got to ...

The BS from the BLS is better than expected.

AlphaNinja 11 days ago

Stocks are slightly positive this Friday morning, maybe due to a better than expected report out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS report said that 36,000 jobs were lost in February, decently better than the expected loss of 50,000. It looks to me ...

Joint Economic Cmte Holds Hearing On February 2010 Employment Numbers

Getty Images 11 days ago

WASHINGTON - MARCH 05: Chairman Robert Casey (D-PA), (L) talks with Dr. Keith Hall, (R), Commissioner Bureau of Labor Statistics, during a Joint Economic Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on March 5, 2010 in Washington, DC. The committee is hearing testimony on ...

U.S. unemployment rate rises to 8.5%

Stockhouse 13 days ago

<div id="subtitle">Economy loses 663,000 jobs in March</div><div><p>The U.S. economy shed 663,000 jobs in March, while the unemployment rate rose from 8.1% to 8.5%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday. </p ...

Is nursing a career cure?

AP Features 13 days ago

<div><p>Their fellow students call them "Mom and Pop."</p><p>Both 40 years old, Lena Gambill and Bob Mitchell are among the first-year nursing students at Shawnee State University, in the Ohio river city of Portsmouth nearly 100 miles southeast of here. In an Appalachian ...

CUSHIONING WORKWEEK CUTS

BusinessWeek 13 days ago

<div><h1> CUSHIONING WORKWEEK CUTS </h1><p>As the downturn has deepened, companies are cutting workers' hours to avert, or supplement, layoffs. Nearly 7 million people worked part time in March because of slack business conditions, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports, roughly double the ...

An economic helping hand

Las Vegas Sun 14 days ago

<div id="subtitle">With millions of Americans hurting, government should boost social services with stimulus</div><div><p> The recent news released by the Labor Department showed the horrific state of the economy: In December, the national unemployment rate was 7.2 percent, meaning 11.1 million people were ...

U.S. economy sheds 598,000 jobs in January

Stockhouse 14 days ago

&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Unemployment rate climbs to 7.6%&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leading up to and following Friday’s news that the unemployment rate in the United States rose to 7.6% as the economy shed 598,000 jobs in January, Stockhouse members on one Bullboard weighed in with some of their ...

January Employment May Be Down by Another 500,000

BusinessWeek 14 days ago

<div><p> The U.S. economy has too much stuff for sale and too few buyers, and that's why you can look forward to another ugly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Feb. 6. Job losses for January were probably the ...

US jobless rate rises to highest level since 1994

AFP Global Edition 14 days ago

<div><p>The US unemployment rate rose to its highest level since 1994 in October, the government said Friday, reaching 6.5 percent as the world's largest economy shed jobs amid the credit squeeze and downturn.</p><p>The US Bureau of Labor Statistics said 240,000 jobs had ...

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