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In The News | Baby Boomers and the Unemployment Rate , Skills Gap, EI Changes, Layoffs, Older Workers and Plastic Surgery for a Job and More
Jobs: The number of baby boomers retiring is holding down the unemployment rate – UPI.com upi.com – President Obama can thank baby boomers at least in part for the drop in the U.S. unemployment rate, with the first post-World War II generation hitting retirement age at a rate of 10,000 a day. Une… JobMarketMon Macau labor … Continue reading
Spain | Unemployment at record level
New figures show that Spanish unemployment levels have hit record levels, with nearly a quarter of the labour force unable to find work. The news comes hours after the country’s credit rating was cut two notches to “BBB+” by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s. According to the new data released on Friday, unemployment levels hit … Continue reading
France | Unemployment Worst Since Sept 1999
Unemployment in France surged to its highest level in over 12 years in March, the labor ministry data showed Thursday, days ahead of the Presidential poll. The number of registered job seekers in the country rose to 2.88 million in March, the highest total since September 1999. The jobless total was up 0.6 percent from … Continue reading
U.S. | Businesses add a disappointing 120,000 jobs in March
U.S. | BLS Commissioner’s Statement on the Employment Situation (Adapted excerpts by Lab Market Monitor) Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 120,000 in March, and the unemployment rate, at 8.2 percent, changed little. Over the prior 3 months, nonfarm job growth had averaged 246,000 per month. Since a recent low point in February 2010, payroll employment has … Continue reading
5 scariest debt and unemployment charts from the new CBO report « The Enterprise Blog
The Congressional Budget Office has released its updated 10-year budget and economic forecast. Actually, the CBO offers two forecasts. It has a baseline forecast, which assumes current law stays in place. It also has an “alternative” forecast which assumes current tax and spending policy stays in place as is—even if the law says it must … Continue reading
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