Admin Officials Express Cautious Optimism on Jobs Front
ABC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Christina Romer: "We will have some down months before we have some up months."
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Obama: Use leftover bank bailout money to create jobs
All 24 Hours News (Free subscription) | yesterday
President Barack Obama on Tuesday made the case for spending some of an expected $200 billion left over from… Source : World News Related News Kline tackles Afghanistan withdrawal date, rhetoric at hearing Abortion again roils health care debate Jobs bill could cost $75 billion to $150 billion: Hoyer E-Voting Confab In February Docs say TRS chief’s condition serious, must end fast Jenny Sanford...
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Job Front: Stimulus funds expand California's disabled worker program
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Federal stimulus dollars will expand an on-the-job training program for California's disabled workers. The state Department of Rehabilitation will spend nearly $6 million on outreach, attracting more businesses to the longtime program, said Michelle Alford-Williams, the department's work force development manager. In all, the department received $61.8 million in stimulus funding this year that will...
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A Welcome Surprise on the Jobs Front
Kiplinger Personal Finance (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
More job seekers in the months ahead will push the unemployment rate higher, not lower.
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Good News on Jobs Front but Still no Signs of a "Robust" Recovery
Alternet (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Employers are cutting jobs at a much slower rate.
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U.S. stock markets cheers good news on jobs front
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks rose sharply on Friday as investors cheered surprisingly good news on the labor market. Industrial shares gained the most after the Labor Department reported the nation's unemployment rate fell to 10% in November from 10.2% the previous month. Up as much as 150 points, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was lately up 139.13 points, or 1.4%, at 10,505.28. The S&P...
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Little Progress on the Small Business Jobs Front
The Entrepreneurial Mind (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
According to the November SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard small-business hiring is up in November from October, bringing us to a 2.6 percent increase year-to-date (based on aggregated data from 25,000 small businesses). Unfortunately, any increase is not a sustainable and permanent uptick in jobs. The increase is due to a continued reliance on independent contractors for the majority of...
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Job cuts: Lowest level in two years
CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
In some welcome news on the job front, the pace of U.S. job losses has slowed to the lowest level in two years, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Job Declines Slow in November Says Payroll Firm ADP
Channel Insider (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
While there's not a frenzy of hiring going on as we reach what many believe may be the end of a long recession, there may be reason to celebrate on the job front, says payroll and HR outsourcing firm ADP. That's because the job declines have slowed each month for the last eight months, pointing to a potential stabilization in the employment picture. - When is bad news really good news? These...
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ADP Job Loss Report Is Worse Than Expected
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
We've still got previous few green shoots on the jobs front. The private ADP jobs report indicated a loss of 169,000 private sector jobs in November, which was worse than the 150,000 that analysts had estimated. Also not good: October was revised to a worsse 195,000. ------ According to today's ADP National Employment Report® , private sector employment decreased by...
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UK confidence index holds steady
BBC News (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
UK consumer confidence remains near an 18-month high and there are encouraging signs on the jobs front, surveys suggest.
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Conservative Blog Buzz: Back on track
First Read (Free subscription) | yesterday
From NBC's Kelly Paice After President Obama 's speech today on getting the U.S. economy back on track, conservative bloggers hit back on how the president is handling the way forward, particularly regarding the jobs front. National Review Online's John Hood writes, "There are plenty of reasons for skepticism about President Obama's latest round of stimulus ideas. Unveiled at a...
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ABC’s Roberts: Health Care Bill Would be ‘Historic Moment’; Bill O’Reilly Gives Obama Low Grade on Health Care
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... in their army and their blood unless they know we're growing to be in that region." On the jobs front, he was kinder, giving the President a B, saying that Obama "stabilized" the economy. However O’Reilly was a much tougher grader than ABC’s George Stephanopoulos , rumored to be the next co-host of GMA. During the 2008 presidential election, Stephanopoulos...
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Jobless rate drops slightly to 10%
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
After months of unrelenting bad news on the jobs front, the employment report for November provided a few nuggets of relatively good news. The jobless rate dipped to 10 percent in November from 10.2 percent in October, the Labor Department reported Friday. Payroll employment declined for the 23rd month in a row but fell by just 11,000 workers, significantly less than analysts expected....
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Hiring outlook for recent grads improves
The Sacramento Business Journal (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
New college graduates can be a little more hopeful about the job front.
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