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Trends Still Murky But Positive U.S. Jobs Numbers Drive Dow To 5-Year High
05/10/2012 Comments Off on Trends Still Murky But Positive U.S. Jobs Numbers Drive Dow To 5-Year High
Good news on the U.S. jobs market led to a rally for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The U.S. unemployment rate in September fell from 8.1% to 7.8%, the lowest since January 2009. More Americans found part-time work, helping to account for the decline, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Labor announced Friday, 5 October […]
Continue reading …Irish Workers Emigrate In Record Numbers Keeping Ireland’s Unemployment Down
29/09/2012 Comments Off on Irish Workers Emigrate In Record Numbers Keeping Ireland’s Unemployment Down
Irish workers are on the move again. This time it’s a 21st century wave of Irish immigration that’s taking away Ireland’s most skilled workers. More than 100,000 Irish workers are expected to leave to find jobs before end of 2013. Ireland’s unemployment rate was 14.7% as of August 2012. For many Irish workers the only […]
Continue reading …Record One-in-Five Households Has Student Loan Debt, Burden Greatest On Young, Poor
27/09/2012 Comments Off on Record One-in-Five Households Has Student Loan Debt, Burden Greatest On Young, Poor
By Richard Fry, Pew Research Center— Nearly one out of five (19%) of U.S. households owed student loan debt in 2010. That’s more than double the share two decades earlier and a significant rise from the 15% that owed such debt in 2007, just prior to the start of the Great Recession, according to a […]
Continue reading …Global Gloom About The World Economy, China, India & Emerging Markets Optimistic
21/09/2012 Comments Off on Global Gloom About The World Economy, China, India & Emerging Markets Optimistic
Pew Research Center report- The economic mood is exceedingly glum all around the world. A median of just 27% think their national economy is doing well, according to a survey in 21 countries by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project. Only in China (83%), Germany (73%), Brazil (65%) and Turkey (57%) do most people […]
Continue reading …Study Finds 99% Of American Workers Get Decade Of Pain, Top 1% Net All The Income Gain
19/09/2012 Comments Off on Study Finds 99% Of American Workers Get Decade Of Pain, Top 1% Net All The Income Gain
How well is the American economy providing acceptable growth in living standards and income for most households? Economic Policy Institute’s The State of Working America, 12th Edition looks broadly at available data and concludes that the answer is simply “not well at all.” This is not because the economy has failed to grow, on average. […]
Continue reading …A Temporary Trap? Full Time Work Elusive For Young Workers
18/09/2012 Comments Off on A Temporary Trap? Full Time Work Elusive For Young Workers
ILO News– Temporary work can be a great way for young people to gain work experience while still studying or travelling. But, as the youth jobs crisis shows no signs of abating, temporary jobs have become, in many cases, an option of last resort. The use of temporary contracts for young workers has nearly doubled […]
Continue reading …Working in America: Having A Secure Job Is A Path To The Middle Class
08/09/2012 Comments Off on Working in America: Having A Secure Job Is A Path To The Middle Class
By Wendy Wang, Pew Research Center–Americans believe that having a secure job is by far the most important requirement for being in the middle class, easily trumping homeownership and a college education, according to a new nationwide Pew Research Center survey of 2,508 adults. Nearly nine-in-ten adults (86%) say a person needs a secure job […]
Continue reading …Long-Term Unemployment — Lost Income, Lost Friends, Loss of Self-respect
22/06/2012 Comments Off on Long-Term Unemployment — Lost Income, Lost Friends, Loss of Self-respect
By RICH MORIN and RAKESH KOCHHAR, Pew Research Center– Long-term unemployment takes a much deeper toll than short-term unemployment on a person’s finances, emotional well-being and career prospects, according to a new Pew Research Center survey that explores the attitudes and experiences of workers who have lost jobs during the Great Recession. Of those who have experienced […]
Continue reading …Daisy Pushers: Top 10 Dying U.S. Industries
26/04/2012 Comments Off on Daisy Pushers: Top 10 Dying U.S. Industries
Some industries simply aren’t participating in the recovery, says a recent report by IBISWorld, Los Angeles-based publisher and analyst of financial information. “In fact, some are pushing up daisies,” according to the report by Caitlin Moldvay and Douglas Kelly of IBISWorld. IBISWorld defines a dying industry as one in a declining life cycle, with both […]
Continue reading …Young Adults Optimistic, Underemployed Face Bad Economy
20/04/2012 Comments Off on Young Adults Optimistic, Underemployed Face Bad EconomyA plurality of the American public believes that young adults are having the toughest time of any age group in today’s economy—and a lopsided majority says it’s more difficult for today’s young adults than it was for their parents’ generation to pay for college, find a job, buy a home or save for the future. […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill