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Category: NewsBy Kate Lorenz on Mar 5, 2010 in Employment Trends, News, Unemployment | 2 Comments
We’ve been a little crazed here at TheWorkBuzz lately and just realized the day has passed without posting our regular breakdown of the BLS’s monthly unemployment numbers. Luckily, our colleagues at TheHiringSite.com have already written about that very subject so we’ll refer you to their post.
By anthony balderrama on Mar 4, 2010 in Current Affairs, Featured, Jobs, News | 14 Comments
After a lot of sound and even more fury, the House of Representatives finally passed a $15 billion jobs bill. (Yes, billion.) The bill has been debated, criticized, lauded, feared, analyzed and everything else you can possibly do to a bill. The final vote was 217-201.
By anthony balderrama on Feb 22, 2010 in Current Affairs, Featured, News | 2 Comments
We try to discuss current workplace topics as much as possible, but we can’t possibly keep up with every news item that comes out. So here’s a quick rundown of some noteworthy workplace-related items worth reading: Panel OKs lower pay for young workers (in Arizona) Highlights of Senate jobs bill How to decline Facebook friends without [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Feb 5, 2010 in Employment, Employment Trends, Featured, Mature Workers, News, Unemployment | 19 Comments
The BLS released January’s jobs report this morning, and while it wasn’t complete cause for celebration, it was encouraging. The unemployment rate fell from 10.0 to 9.7 percent in January, and nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged, down -20,000 compared to -779,000 in January 2009. Here are the highlights: The number of unemployed persons decreased to [...]
By anthony balderrama on Jan 28, 2010 in Featured, Job Search, Jobs, News, Unemployment | 13 Comments
If you’re like millions of Americans, you tuned into President Obama’s State of the Union address last night. If you’re like millions of Americans, you might have tuned in accidentally because you forgot it was on and went to watch Modern Family, only to find Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos chatting with each other. So [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jan 8, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Mature Workers, News, Unemployment | 12 Comments
The BLS released the last unemployment numbers of the year this morning and overall job loss numbers declined by -85,000 in the last month of 2009. Among the largest industries, construction, manufacturing and retail lost jobs, while health care and temporary help services added jobs. In December, both the number of unemployed persons, at 15.3 million, and [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Dec 16, 2009 in Employment Trends, Featured, Jobs, News | 61 Comments
I’m probably as sick of writing about job loss as you are reading about it. Today I have some good news to report. Yesterday, the Brookings Institute released the Q3 edition of its MetroMonitor, a “quarterly, interactive barometer of the health of America’s 100 largest metropolitan economies.” The MetroMonitor analyzes trends in U.S. metro employment, [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Dec 7, 2009 in Employment Trends, Featured, Jobs, News | 14 Comments
In another indicator that the economy is healing, November’s overall job loss numbers dropped by only -11,000 — less than economists predicted. Additionally, October’s job loss number was revised from -190,000 down to -111,000, and September was revised -219,000 down to -139,000. That’s a sign things are headed in the right direction, but it may not [...]
By anthony balderrama on Nov 6, 2009 in Current Affairs, Employment Trends, Featured, Job Search, News, Unemployment | 8 Comments
Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released new data and reported 190,000 jobs were lost in October. Although that figure means 190,000 people lost their jobs–a reality no one can be pleased about–it is a better figure than the 219,000 jobs lost in September. Look back to a year ago, when the numbers hit 597,000 [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Sep 4, 2009 in Compensation, Diversity, Employment Trends, Featured, Mature Workers, News, Salary | 40 Comments
While the unemployment rate edged up in August to 9.7 — the country’s highest in 27 years — the Labor Department has reported that fewer jobs were lost. While employment continued to drop, that decline appears to be slowing: -216,000 jobs in August compared to -463,000 in June and -276,000 in July. This latest report [...]
