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BusinessWeek
December 22, 2003
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U.S.: The Job Market Is Stronger Than It Looks Growth in other employment measures belies the weak payroll numbers   |
The Motley Fool
November 4, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Should You Cheer Today's Jobs Report? The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' employment situation report for October showed that 80,000 net jobs were added to the economy during the month. |
BusinessWeek
October 23, 2006
James C. Cooper |
U.S.: The Job Reports Aren't Doing Their Job Why the Labor Dept.'s payroll numbers are confusing the markets. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2005
Michael K. Evans |
Evans On The Economy -- More Jobs Will Be Lost What will happen to the U.S. economy as manufacturing employment continues to shrink? Manufacturing workers will be hurt, but not the U.S. economy generally. |
BusinessWeek
January 26, 2004
James C. Cooper |
So Where Are The Jobs? They're On The Way Are things really as bad as the latest employment data imply? Probably not. The fact is, the recent payroll data are giving the wrong impression of the strength of the labor markets. It has happened before, especially during the early stages of the recovery from the 1990-91 recession. |
BusinessWeek
October 4, 2004
Robert J. Barro |
Why Are the Dems Griping About Jobs? As the election nears, a fair assessment is that the U.S. economy is actually doing well and that jobs are being created at a pretty fair clip. |
Registered Rep.
July 30, 2003
Will Leitch |
Securities Industry Registers Slight Employment Uptick Securities firms have begun adding employees again, according to statistics from the Securities Industry Association and the Labor Dept. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Know Your Numbers: Factory Orders While the factory-orders report takes much of its information from data previously released in the durable goods report, the Census Bureau provides some helpful supplemental information that is helpful in evaluating particular industries within the manufacturing sector. |
InternetNews
May 7, 2004
Sharon Gaudin |
IT Loses Jobs in April but Rate of Decline Ebbs Government economists report that the high-tech industry is still losing jobs, but the loss rate is slower than it was a year ago. |
BusinessWeek
January 26, 2004
Robert J. Barro |
Don't Sweat The Sickly Employment Numbers Job data can be unreliable. But runaway spending is real. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2009 |
Job Losses: By The Numbers Figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Manufacturing Performance Institute/MAPI show that the end of 2008 was one of the worst periods in recent history for job losses. |
HRO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
Michael Beygelman |
Employment Edges toward "R" Regional numbers vary sharply as Charlotte and Texas post job gains in spite of a broader weakening of the economy. |
BusinessWeek
September 29, 2003
James Mehring |
Federal Figures at Your Fingertips Profit data, career information, and more are just a mouse click away |
BusinessWeek
June 20, 2005
Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: Weak Payrolls Mask A Tightening Job Market How companies handle rising labor costs will affect future inflation. |
The Motley Fool
November 2, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Know Your Numbers: Employment Cost Index The quarterly BLS release of the employment cost index provides a look at what employers have to pay in order to obtain the labor they need. By observing changes in the index, you can potentially anticipate economic trends that may affect the companies in which you invest. |
BusinessWeek
July 26, 2004
Peter Coy |
Another Look At Those Job Numbers The figures show that the U.S. economy created more high-paying jobs than low-paying jobs in the year that ended in June. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Workplace Fatalities in the U.S.: By The Numbers Here are some statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics about workplace fatalities. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2007
David Blanchard |
The Face Of American Manufacturing The United States is the world's most productive country, but the global landscape has changed dramatically in recent years and even more changes are on the way. |
The Motley Fool
November 11, 2011
Morgan Housel |
7 Charts That Sum Up Our Jobs Mess Misery, in pictures. There is no economic law that says that everyone, or even most people, automatically benefit from technological progress. |
AFP eWire
June 7, 2004 |
U.S. Nonprofit Employment Rate Increasing Faster Than Business, Government Employees at nonprofits now represent 9.5 percent -- 12.5 million individuals -- of all employees in the United States. The total number of employees working in the nonprofit sector has doubled in the last 25 years. |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Ceyda Oner |
Back to Basics: What Constitutes Unemployment? Earlier this year, the International Labor Office announced that global unemployment last year reached the highest level on record. More than 200 million people, 7 percent of the global workforce, were looking for jobs in 2009. |
Information Today
August 2, 2012 |
Census Bureau API Lets Developers Create Custom Apps The U.S. Census Bureau launched a new online service that makes key demographic, socioeconomic, and housing statistics more accessible than ever before. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Unemployed? This Might Explain Why All unemployment isn't created equal. For the young and uneducated, this truly is a depression. For the older and the educated, it's not so bad. |
BusinessWeek
October 25, 2004
Cooper & Madigan |
U.S: A Tempest In Employment's Teacup? The recent lackluster job numbers may be saying more about the weather than the economy. Here's who softened September's job numbers: Hurricanes Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne. |
BusinessWeek
July 23, 2007
James C. Cooper |
Labor Is Keeping The Economy In Fighting Trim The job market looks healthy enough to power a strong second half. |
Reason
December 2004
Julian Sanchez |
Data: Wage Wars The Chicago Federal Reserve's September newsletter notes that even if one focuses on broad industry categories, higher-paying sectors account for a disproportionate share of recent job growth. |
The Motley Fool
May 9, 2005
Selena Maranjian |
How Do You Use Your Time? Statistics on how Americans use their time, especially from a work-home perspective. |
BusinessWeek
January 23, 2006
James C. Cooper |
U.S.: One Big Reason To Expect A Decent Year For Jobs Companies can no longer meet demand with existing forces. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Where All The Jobs Went Here's a sobering statistic: All nine recessions between 1948 and 1990 saw employment return to pre-recession levels within 31 months. Today, 42 months after our recession began, we've only regained about a fifth of lost jobs. |
Job Journal
September 5, 2010
John Challenger |
Career Pros: Job Market Recovery is Stronger Than Many Think Compared to previous recessions, the job market is recovering quickly. |
HRO Today
Jul/Aug 2008
Michael Beygelman |
Mid-year Employment Review Think the economy is in trouble? There are some encouraging data overshadowed by the negative news these days. |
The Motley Fool
June 3, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Before You Get Too Worked Up About That Jobs Number ... You can't simply look at today's number and declare that we're falling into a new slowdown. |
Finance & Development
December 2010
Sara Elder |
Youth for Hire The global economic crisis has led to the highest youth unemployment rates ever. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Know Your Numbers: Jobless Claims Basic knowledge can help you comprehend releases of economic data. Jobless claims data can give you a quick snapshot of the overall economy through its workforce. |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003
Gary S. Becker |
The Productivity Boom Is Just Warming Up In the past, productivity almost always fell during recessions because both labor and capital were underutilized as output sagged. But the apparent paradox of the past few years is that labor productivity has grown even more rapidly since 2000 than in the '90s. |
BusinessWeek
December 20, 2004
Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: Job Growth That is Just Good Enough Despite a weak November, the labor market is giving a boost to the economy. November's hiring gains, while soft, were widespread across the economy. |
The Motley Fool
September 7, 2006
Mike Norman |
Dismal Science From the Armchair Access to free data on the Internet lets anyone give economic forecasting a try. If ever there was a time to be an amateur economist, it is now, so go ahead and awaken the economist within you. |
U.S. Banker
June 2011
Mark R. Pawlak |
Sizing Up the Labor Force A drop in unemployment is typically associated with growth in the labor force. But in the current market, that's not happening, which makes the Fed's job more difficult. |
BusinessWeek
September 25, 2006 |
How We Looked Inside Details of the analysis used to highlight the health-care sector's place in the total workforce. |
AFP eWire
February 19, 2007 |
Volunteering Slightly Down in 2006, But Overall Still Strong Results from a survey on volunteering by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show a modest decline, but they may reflect special circumstances instead of a trend. Includes statistics on the demographics of volunteers. |
BusinessWeek
October 15, 2007
James C. Cooper |
Don't Count Out The Consumer Just Yet If the job markets don't falter, households may keep up their spending. |
Job Journal
May 23, 2010
John Challenger |
Career Pros: Oldest Workers Remain Competitive In a labor market full of competition, the elders are holding their own. |
Job Journal
January 17, 2010 |
2010 Job Market Outlook: Job Growth Begins to Take Hold as Employers Gain Confidence 2009 began with the largest downsizing the American job market has received in over a decade. With all future forecasts predicting job growth, the question remains, when will job creation finally begin to outpace job elimination? |
BusinessWeek
March 21, 2005
Michael J. Mandel |
Now Workers Can Flex Some Muscle As labor markets tighten, employees are gaining bargaining power. |
Job Journal
September 9, 2012
John A. Challenger |
Career Pros: Labor Day is Time to Renew Efforts The annual holiday honoring America's workforce is an appropriate time to reassess your job search and redouble your efforts toward achieving your employment goals. |
The Motley Fool
October 19, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Fair Game: Blaming Older Workers for High Unemployment How delayed retirements are hurting employment. |
Information Today
March 12, 2007
Paula J. Hane |
Data-Planet Provides Value-Added Aggregation of Statistical Data Conquest Systems, Inc. has introduced Data-Planet, a new Web-based service that aggregates current and historical public statistical data from many U.S. federal agencies as well as data from nongovernment organizations. |
BusinessWeek
July 21, 2003
Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: The Jobless Recovery: Deja Vu All over Again But unlike the early '90s, hiring now will take longer to turn around |
Job Journal
June 27, 2004 |
Charting the Choices A easy-to-read guide to the most-promising professions. |
BusinessWeek
April 19, 2004
Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: Oh, What A Difference A Month Can Make With the March jobs report, the economy looks a lot stronger than expected |
