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Big U.S. Job Losses Are Sign Recession May Be Under Way 2008-03-15 01:55:03 Mar. 10, 2008 (Investor’s Business Daily delivered by Newstex) –
Employers unexpectedly cut 63,000 jobs in February, the biggest drop in five years, the government said Friday, the strongest evidence yet that the U.S. is in a recession.
Factories, construction firms, retailers and a wide range of other businesses slashed payrolls, the Labor Department said. Analysts had [...] Read more:Losses
Retail Sales Dropped 0.6% Last Month As Job Cuts, Credit Crunch Hit Consumer 2008-03-15 01:53:31 Shoppers tightened their purse strings last month as labor markets weakened and inflation pressures picked up, the Commerce Department said Thursday.
Retail
sales declined 0.6% in February after a modest gain of 0.4% in January. Economists expected a 0.2% increase.
Sales
declined 0.2% ex autos. They fell 0.1% ex autos and gas.
“The report doesn’t suggest that consumers [...] Read more:Dropped
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Job Searching in a Tight Job Market 2008-03-15 01:51:40 When the job market gets tight, it’s important to be well-positioned to job search. There is more competition for fewer jobs and you, unfortunately, never know when you might lose yours. There are ways that you can insure that you’re in a strong position, regardless of why you’re changing jobs. First of all, be prepared [...] Read more:Market
U.S. weekly initial jobless claims stay at 353,000 2008-03-15 01:44:38 WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — First-time claims
for state unemployment benefits remained unchanged in the latest week, staying at a level that signals a weak labor market, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
Claims for the week ending March 8 came in at 353,000, the same as the revised number for the week ending March 1.
Claims for the week [...]
Report: Ogden job market to be among nation’s hottest this spring 2008-03-15 01:42:46 OGDEN — A new report says Ogden will have one of the hottest job markets in the country this spring.
Manpower Inc. says 47 percent of employers surveyed in the area plan to hire for new positions between April and June. That’s good enough for No. 1 in the state and No. [...] Read more:nation
Arkansas unemployment rate rises to 5.6 percent 2008-03-12 14:08:18 Arkansas’ unemployment rate rose slightly in January to 5.6 percent from 5.5 percent in December, according to data from the U.S. Department of Labor.
The state’s civilian labor force expanded 3,900 between December 2007 and January 2008.
“Although non-farm payroll jobs declined 21,200 between December and January, the change is within the historical range for the past [...] Read more:Arkansas
Dallas-Fort Worth employers added 66,500 jobs in 2007 2008-03-12 14:07:17 Dallas-Fort Worthemployers
added 66,500 nonfarm jobs last year, a hair above the previously announced 65,800, according to revised figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Labor.
That puts D-FW among the top U.S. metro areas for 2007 job gains, alongside such leaders as New York and red-hot Houston.
Still, 2007 was the weakest year for [...] Read more:Dallas
College Graduates…In High Demand? 2008-03-12 14:05:43 One of my favorite parts of The Opening Bell (airs 9-10a.m. M-F) is when we “turn the page.” This is when I assign newspapers to my colleagues (Ashley Webster, Connell McShane, Robert Gray, Ray Hennessey, Adam Shapiro and our guest host). Their job is to take the newspaper that I assigned to them and go [...] Read more:College
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Job market for U.S. graduates will grow 2008-03-12 14:04:43 BETHLEHEM, Pa., March 10 (UPI) — The job market for U.S. college graduates looks more promising than it did in 2007, USA Today reported Monday.
To make up for the growing number of U.S. workers reaching retirement age, employers are set to hire 16 percent more graduates this year from a year ago, a National Association [...]
Six Things You Should Know About Pre-Employment Tests 2008-03-21 02:42:00 Executive candidates often are surprised when asked to take a test or other assessment for a job. They shouldn’t be.
Pre-employment testing is on the rise. In the past five years, 60% of companies have increased their use of workplace-behavior assessments, according to a survey of more than 500 human-resources professionals at U.S. companies from Spherion [...]
Delta Reveals Planned Job Cuts 2008-03-21 02:37:31 Delta Reveals Planned Job Cuts [DAL]
3/18/2008 5:54:51 PM With a merger with rival Northwest (NWA) stymied by union problems, Delta Air Lines (DAL) revealed a restructuring program on Tuesday. The company said it plans to cut about 2,000 jobs in an attempt to combat the negative influence of higher fuel prices.
In an internal memo released [...] Read more:Delta
Citigroup Laying Off 2,000 More 2008-03-21 02:35:41 Citigroup Inc. plans to lay off an additional 2,000 employees from its markets and banking unit, and in this latest round of job cuts, senior investment-banking officials won’t be spared, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.
The latest round of job cuts at the New York-based bank brings its layoffs since the mortgage [...] Read more:Citigroup
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U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rose 38,000 to 407,000 (Update5) 2008-04-03 09:12:04 April 3 (Bloomberg) — The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly increased last week to the highest level since just after Hurricane Katrina in September 2005.
Initial jobless claims climbed by 38,000 in the week that ended March 29 to 407,000, the Labor Department said today in Washington. The four-week moving average, [...] Read more:Jobless
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Jobless Claims Shoot Up to Highest Point Since September 2005, More Strains Evident in Economy 2008-04-03 09:09:25 AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of new people signing up for unemployment benefits last week shot up to the highest level in more than two years, fresh evidence of the damage to a national economy clobbered by housing, credit and financial crises.
The Labor Department reported Thursday that new applications filed for unemployment insurance jumped by [...] Read more:Jobless
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