U.S. job growth in March was somewhat lower than predicted as employers added 192,000 jobs during the month. The unemployment rate remained at 6.7 percent … Read more
February Jobs Report: Better Than Expected; Not as Good as Last Year
Less crippled than economists predicted by the nasty weather that gripped much of the nation last month, the U.S.Department of Labor reported this morning … Read more
Optimism Among Manufacturers Prompts Plans For More Hiring
Hiring plans by American manufacturers are at the highest level in five years, and the 58 percent of industrial employes who say they expect to add workers … Read more
CFOs: 2 Percent Hiring Growth Next 12 Months
Despite optimism about higher earnings and revenue growth, a survey of the nation’s CFOs finds them worried enough about Obamacare and the strength … Read more
The Unemployment Bias: The Long-term Unemployed Face Severe Discrimination
Last year I did some work for a large company that decided it would not hire anyone who was unemployed. It would automatically reject any candidate who had … Read more
Employers Expect No Change in Hiring of Permanent, Fulltimers, But More Plan to Add Temps
The number of employers planning to hire full-time permanent workers by the end of the year is unchanged from a year ago, though the number expecting to … Read more
New Rite of Passage for Teens: Summer Unemployment
A summer job used to be one of those rites of passage for teenagers. Like moving from middle school to high school, and Pop Warner to varsity, working at … Read more
Today’s, and This Week’s, Jobs Numbers Offer Good News
Today’s jobs report was supposed to be the “most important in years.” But if I’ve learned anything from watching and reading so … Read more
April’s 165,000 Jobs Growth Shows Recovery Demise “Grossly Exaggerated”
After a mediocre jobs report from ADP on Wednesday, and the government’s own anemic March report last month, economists and the financial markets … Read more
CareerBuilder Forecast: Companies Expect to Hire Fewer Workers
Hiring is slowing from last year, and the trend is predicted to continue at least through the rest of the first half of the year, says a new report from … Read more