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Humanities Major / What can you do with it ?
What may be surprising is the number of jobs available to humanities majors that are not typically associated with the field Continue reading
Seven job creation strategies for city harness the sharing economy
How can a city harness the sharing economy in order to create jobs and develop enterprise? Continue reading
Skills Gap in Colorado / Shortage could raise construction costs
The main reasons for the workforce decrease was the lack of demand for laborers during the economy’s downturn in 2009 Continue reading
Apprenticeships in South Carolina / A German company is training students in skilled labor through the model
BMW’s plant in Greer, S.C., is its only one in the United States. The company offers a program called BMW Scholars that allows young workers to study at technical colleges and work Continue reading
US Unemployment Rate / What if those who have left the labor force since the start of the Great Recession are counted ?
3.5% of the working-age population has left the labor force since the start of the Great Recession. Should those people be also counted as unemployed? If so, here is what the unemployment rate trend would look like Continue reading
Unemployment Extension / White House will push when Congress comes back to work
“These are not the people who caused the financial crisis, they are the victims of the financial crisis,” the President said Continue reading
Brazil / Low unemployment rate matches record but …
Fewer Brazilians are working and even less are looking for work Continue reading
10 Jobs for tomorrow that barely exist today (Infographic)
Tomorrow’s graduates will be facing a much different environment than the ones their parents entered in the last generation. As a result of our growing reliance on the Internet and inability to curb our fossil fuel appetites, there are dozens of jobs today that didn’t exist just 10 years ago – and they pay much … Continue reading
Occupation: Spy in US (Infographic)
17: number of different agencies in the U.S. spy network $75 billion: estimated amount of money funding those 17 agencies They are (number of personnel and budgets are generally classified): The CIA (formed 1947), Langley, Va. Number of employees: classified The National Security Agency (NSA), 1952, Fort Meade, Md., no. of employees: classified Defense Intelligence … Continue reading
Austerity in US / Public sector employment has fallen by over 600,000 during the ‘recovery’
As Ben Bernanke put it, “people don’t appreciate how tight fiscal policy has been” Continue reading
Benefits Overview in US / 68 % of workers have access to a pension plan
The National Compensation Survey (NCS) provides comprehensive measures of compensation cost trends, as well as incidence and detailed provisions of employee benefit plans. This bulletin presents estimates of the incidence and key provisions of selected employee benefit plans. Estimates presented are on benefits for civilian workers—workers in private industry and in state and local government—by … Continue reading
Job Vacancies in Canada / 6.0 unemployed people for every job vacancy up from 5.2 one year earlier
The increase in the unemployment-to-job vacancies ratio was the result of fewer job vacancies, as the number of unemployed people was little changed Continue reading
Long-Term Projections for Social Security in US / 58 M people currently receive Social Security benefits
Of those 58 million, about 70 percent are retired workers or their spouses and children, and another 11 percent are survivors of deceased workers; all of those beneficiaries receive payments through Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI). The other 19 percent of beneficiaries are disabled workers or their spouses and children; they receive Disability Insurance (DI) benefits Continue reading
Employment Insurance (EI) in Canada / The number of beneficiaries fell 8.4% in a year
Provincially, British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan were the only provinces with notable increases in the number of regular EI beneficiaries in October compared with September, while New Brunswick was the lone province to experience a decrease over the same period Continue reading
Pension Plans in Canada / Membership in registered pension plans (RPPs) up 0.8%
Membership in public sector pension plans rose by 0.6% to 3,160,000, while the number of members in private sector plans increased 1.0% to 2,954,700. The public sector accounted for 52% of total membership in RPPs Continue reading
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