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Conference Board Employment Trends Index Down

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Conference Board Employment Trends Index Down

The Conference Board Employment Trends Index decreased in September 2011 to 100.95, down from the revised figure of 101.37 in August. The September figure is up 4.4% from the same month a year ago. “Despite the somewhat better than expected employment numbers released on Friday, 07 Oct. 2011,the decline in the Employment Trends Index in […]

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Rick Perry Created Thousands of Jobs For Immigrants

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Rick Perry Created Thousands of Jobs For Immigrants

GOP presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry points to job growth in Texas during the current economic downturn as one of his primary accomplishments. But an analysis of Current Population Survey (CPS) data collected by the Census Bureau shows that immigrants, legal and illegal, have been the primary beneficiaries of job growth in Texas since […]

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Barely There Job Growth in the U.S.

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Barely There Job Growth in the U.S.

The Friday, 7 Oct. 2011, Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows 103,000 jobs were added in September. The jobs number includes about 45,000 striking Verizon workers returning to work, making the number net new jobs created in September about 58,000. This sluggish job growth continued the trend of the past five […]

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What Is Obama’s Actual Record on Creating Jobs?

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What Is Obama’s Actual Record on Creating Jobs?

By Braden Goyette, ProPublica — Waht is Obama’s actual record on creating jobs? The U.S. economy has been staggering for months and is still millions of jobs away [1] from recovering from the nearly 9 million jobs lost in the recession. Indeed, the official unemployment rate has hovered around 9% or 10%[2] for more than […]

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America’s Sputtering Economy by the Numbers

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America’s Sputtering Economy by the Numbers

By Braden Goyette ProPublica America’s Sputtering Economy, by the Numbers. With increasing signs that the economy is laboring [2], most economists agree that a short-term infusion of spending, or an extension of this year’s temporary cut in Social Security taxes, could help fend off a new downturn. But whatever one thinks of the debt deal […]

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Half of Americans Report Job-Related Hardships

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Half of Americans Report Job-Related Hardships

New research reports what you probably already know: recession job-related hardship. We all know it’s rough out there on the job, but the experts at the respected Pew Research Center have delivered new numbers on what they’re calling the Great Recession – great not because we love it so much, but because it’s been longer […]

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