Showing posts with label job market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label job market. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Friday, August 6, 2010
July 2010 Unemployment Graphs
Longer. Deeper. And flat at the bottom. Unfortunately that describes the 2007 employment recession...
The Employment-Population ratio decreased to 58.4% in July from 58.5% in June...
The Labor Force Participation Rate decreased to 64.6% from 64.7% in June...
The reason the unemployment rate was steady at 9.5% was because people left the workforce - and that is not good news. As the employment picture improves, people will return to the labor force, and that will put upward pressure on the unemployment rate...
According to the BLS, there are 6.572 million workers who have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks and still want a job. This is 4.3% of the civilian workforce, just below the record set last month.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Friday, November 13, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Saturday, August 8, 2009
A Decade Without Job Growth
“For the first time since the Depression, the American economy has added virtually no jobs in the private sector over a 10-year period. The total number of jobs has grown a bit, but that is only because of government hiring.The accompanying charts show the job performance from July 1999, when the economy was booming and companies were complaining about how hard it was to find workers, through July of this year, when the economy was mired in the deepest and longest recession since World War II. For the decade, there was a net gain of 121,000 private sector jobs, according to the survey of employers conducted each month by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In an economy with 109 million such jobs, that indicated an annual growth rate for the 10 years of 0.01 percent.”
source and source
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Best and Worst Jobs
| The Best | The Worst |
| 1. Mathematician | 200. Lumberjack |
| 2. Actuary | 199. Dairy Farmer |
| 3. Statistician | 198. Taxi Driver |
| 4. Biologist | 197. Seaman |
| 5. Software Engineer | 196. EMT |
| 6. Computer Systems Analyst | 195. Garbage Collector |
| 7. Historian | 194. Welder |
| 8. Sociologist | 193. Roustabout |
| 9. Industrial Designer | 192. Ironworker |
| 10. Accountant | 191. Construction Worker |
| 11. Economist | 190. Mail Carrier |
read the WSJ article
and for the full list here
Thursday, April 24, 2008
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