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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
<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 ...
<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 ...
<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 ...
<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 ...
<div id="subtitle">Unemployment rate climbs to 7.6%</div><div><p>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 ...
<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 ...
<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 ...
