Unemployment dips to 8.1% as more people stop looking for work By Jeffry Bartash, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. economy created just 115,000 jobs in April as hiring slacked off for a second straight month, according to the government’s latest employment figures. The unemployment rate fell slightly to 8.1% from 8.2%, but the decline stemmed [...]
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The Job Market: April 2012
As I wrote last month, things are getting better, although many reading this might scratch their head reading this because they don’t believe it. Hiring in the private sector is up but state and local government jobs are being reduced (the federal government never cuts jobs except in the military). The time it takes for [...]
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The Job Market: January, 2010
Did you know that the recession ended?
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The Job Market Forecast for 2010 from Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
The Job Market Forecast for 2010 from Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
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The Job Market: December, 2009
By now you have heard the reports about how the jobs report showed far fewer job losses than we’ve had in two years–only 11,000 jobs lost. In a few weeks, the revisions will show that we probably gained jobs last month. “Happy days,” reports the financial and news media. “The jobless recovery is almost over,” [...]
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The Job Market: November, 2009
We are almost at the end of 2009, just over one year since the world financial markets and took jobs with them throughout the world. In the USA in July, 2008, unemployment stood at 5.7%. Today, we are almost double that rate at 10.2%. A large amount of that can be attributed to the collapse [...]
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The Job Market: October, 2009
For those of you who have been reading my ezine or my articles for TheJobMarketBlog.com, you know I became very pessimistic about the job market in August, 2007, the day that we all first heard the term, “subprime mortgage.” In March of this year, I wrote that I had seen the first signs of the [...]
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