The Jobs Report Has Some Very Good Hidden Numbers
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this morning that the unemployment rate for January rose slightly, but revisions to previous months showed a huge surge in hiring.
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With Tim Cook as an official guest, the President will be able to look up into the Capitol's VIP box at an Apple figurehead for his second straight State of the Union — except after the year Apple's had, maybe it won't be such an awkward thumbs-up to China this time.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this morning that the unemployment rate for January rose slightly, but revisions to previous months showed a huge surge in hiring.
When you see phrases like "the long decline of the American worker," it's easy to brush it off as hyperbole, but new numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest otherwise.
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If the latest rumors are true, Apple's made-in-America shift will be an extremely experimental, low-cost operation — and if you look at the supply chain, that may point to more of a symbolic gesture than a genuine engine of job creation.
Hoping to achieve what even Steve Jobs once considered the impossible, the largest company in American history will attempt to actually make a major product in America, says Apple CEO Tim Cook in a new interview.
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Two new reports on the state of unemployment came out this morning, but given their non-shocking results, it seems that the jobs picture is unlikely to shake up the election's final days.
Weekly unemployment claims rose to 388,000 last week, but everyone is still so confused about last week's report, that no one really knows what to believe.
In the economics world, Thursdays means initial jobless claims, and that means yet another favorable statistic that has naturally suspicious people scratching their heads.
The buzziest part of the economy — the social media startups centered in Silicon Valley — were once heralded as a way to kickstart the economy. Now that there's some good news on the job front — unemployment lower than it's been since January 2009 and 114,000 new jobs last month — it's clear that's not where job growth is coming from.
The unemployment rate plunged to 7.8 percent in September, its lowest level since Barack Obama took office in 2009.
Today in The Wall Street Journal Sue Shellenbarger discusses a type of coworker you've surely had the occasion to work with, assuming you've been working in an office environment for any time at all. This is, Shellenbarger writes, the "workplace whiner."
Tuesday's edition of Buzzfeed's semi-regular Tech Confessional column is a whopper: It's a chat with a guy whose job at Google was to look at all the child porn, beheadings, bestiality, and necrophilia that comes across the company's products. Does that make your job seem a little better?
The Washington Post published a story June 21 calling Mitt Romney an offshoring "pioneer" while at Bain Capitol, and President Obama's campaign made an ad about that. On Wednesday, six days after the story was published, Romney's campaign is seeking a full retraction from the Post, Politico's Dylan Byers reports.
The Romney campaign won't like this. The Washington Post is reporting that while Romney was running Bain Capital, he invested in companies that were some of the first to use overseas work to cut down on costs.
A day of bad economic news dragged the stock market to its worst performance of the year, completely erasing all the gains it had made in all of 2012.
Even though money sits at the heart of the most fundamental human issues, we fear talking about it, quite possibly making money issues, including pay equity, worse.
Hewlett-Packard announced Wednesday that they will cut about 27,000 jobs by the end of 2014 in order to save up to $3.5 billion, so that's obviously not great news for the economy.
You can make any point at all with math. Here's our guide to doing that with Friday's jobs report.
When unemployment drops by only .1 and the number of new jobs misses the mark by 45,000, "disappointment" is one of the gentler terms you could use in describing April's sad jobs report.
Here's something no one wants to hear: The orders for durable goods in March experienced the biggest drop in three years, which halts the momentum in the manufacturing sector--a leading source of jobs since the recession ended.
While we're excited that Apple's decided to expand its operations in the United States, it's very difficult not to be cynical about the details.
"Startup" was the word of the day on Capitol Hill, as the House of Representatives passed the JOBS Act with practically no resistance.
The ADP national employment report shows the U.S. economy added 216,000 private-sector jobs from January to February, up from 173,000 from December to January and providing a preview for the official February employment report on Friday.
Anthony Garcia collected more than $30,000 in unemployment--not bad when you consider he was sitting in a Los Angeles jail serving a sentence for murder.
Although Apple today claimed that it has created over 500,000 American jobs, a closer look shows that number is a bit of a stretch.
The image of a freelance writer seems so easy and glamorous: Write important articles on your laptop at coffeeshops by day, rub elbows with thought leaders at cocktail parties by night, all without ever punching a clock or having a boss like a square.
The Wall Street Journal found some people who've gone 20 or more years without taking one sick day at work. They're not superhuman, they just really, really love their jobs.
In his State of the Union address, President Obama talked a lot about bringing back American jobs as well as American ingenuity as represented by Steve Jobs. But talking about them together somehow seems oxymoronic.
President Obama spoke today after meeting with business leaders to discuss "insourcing," the administration's new buzzword for bringing jobs to America.
The latest figure from payroll firm ADP is the largest one-month gain since last December, but as MSNBC notes, "Most of November's gains were from seasonal workers being hired by UPS."
The financial jobs market isn't doing well and no one expects it to make a comeback anytime soon, if ever.
Nepotism and wealth go together according to a study published in the Journal of Labor Economics.
The U.S. Postal Service lost $5 billion last year and would have lost double that amount if the government hadn't stepped in to give them a break on pension payments.
NASA posted a new listing on the federal government's jobs website on Tuesday, in search of a few men or women who might be looking to join their team of outer space explorers.
Those wishing of adding zeros to their paychecks should know one thing: they're prayers might be best answered through science--or at least by landing a job related to science.
By adding 110,000 jobs to the U.S. economy in October, according to an ADP report released today, private businesses created 10,000 more jobs than economists originally forecasted, The Wall Street Journal is reporting.
President Obama hasn't been able to put enough pressure on House Republicans to get them to pass his jobs bill -- or to pass pieces of his jobs bill -- so his next step in his anti-"do-nothing Congress" campaign is to use the executive order.
Here's something that might cheer up fatalistic liberals who think all the blame for inaction on jobs will fall on the president: conservatives fear Obama's tax-the-rich message is working.
The Obama administration's new Facebook-powered jobs program is just the latest sign that the social network is establishing a heavy presence in D.C.
Boehner felt the need to release phone call transcript insisted the GOP had done something on jobs
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Neither the GOP and Democratic strategies for 2012 depended on the jobs bill passing
The White House has announced an 11 a.m. press conference today
They're using the same technique they use to give back to coffee farmers in third world countries
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