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How states fared on unemployment benefit claims
The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to seasonally adjusted 324,000, the lowest since January 2008. The drop points to fewer layoffs, but companies still need to ramp up hiring in order to rapidly lower unemployment. Here...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Job Layoffs, Unemployment Benefits, Career and Workplace
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April report to show whether weak hiring persisted
WASHINGTON (AP) — A report Friday on April employment could show whether weak hiring in March marked a temporary lull or the fourth year in which a slumping economy has slowed job growth. Economists predict that the job gains likely improved on...
Tags: Banking, Layoffs and Downsizing, Vehicles, Unemployment Benefits, Social Security
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April jobs increase eases fears of another spring swoon
WASHINGTON -- Economists and investors breathed a sigh of relief Friday as the government reported better-than-expected job growth in April and boosted hiring figures for the previous two months. The 165,000 net new jobs added last month eased fears...
Tags: Employment, Unemployment Rate, Labor Markets, Career and Workplace, Employment Opportunities
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U.S. economy adds 165,000 jobs in April
From the Associated PressWASHINGTON -- U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in April, and hiring was much stronger in the previous two months than the government first estimated. The job increases helped reduce the unemployment rate from 7.6 percent to a four-year low of 7.5...Tags: Employment, Unemployment Rate, Labor Markets, Career and Workplace, Federal Reserve
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Many students are confident about job outlook after graduation
WSBT-TVELKHART COUNTY--About 600 students at Ivy Tech Community College will be graduating in a week but are there enough jobs to go around? In February 2013 Elkhart County's unemployment rate was 9 point 8 percent and St. Joseph County's unemployment...Tags: Employment, Colleges and Universities, Graduation, Teaching and Learning, Career and Workplace
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Gov. Tom Corbett blames workers, again, for state's job growth fiasco
When Tom Corbett was running for governor in 2010, he argued that the business community was suffering because Pennsylvania's workers were too lazy to wean themselves from the unemployment benefits being extended by those nasty Democrats in Washington....
Tags: MSNBC (tv network), Allyson Y Schwartz, Regional Authority, Entertainment, Nazareth
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Europe has no exit
WASHINGTON -- For most Americans, Europe is out of sight and out of mind. We figure that the worst of its debt crisis has passed. Italy has a new government. To mute social unrest, some countries are slightly relaxing austerity policies. The European...
Tags: Italy, Market and Exchange, European Debt Crisis, Germany, Spain
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Planned job cuts fall in Florida
Florida had slighter few job cuts, 2,278, announced by employers in April than a year ago when there were 2,536 planned layoffs in April 2012, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Thursday. The news isn't as good for the first four months...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Job Layoffs, Labor Markets, Career and Workplace
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More than 100 Pa. Labor Department workers face layoffs
HARRISBURG (MCT) — More than 100 workers at the state's Department of Labor and Industry will be losing their jobs later this month due to declining federal funds, according to department officials. The impacted workers will come from across the...Tags: Employment, Layoffs and Downsizing, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Unemployment Rate, Labor Markets
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Fed is open to altering bond policy
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve policymakers signaled for the first time that they could "increase or reduce" their controversial efforts to stimulate the economy in the future, but for now they're holding pat. After a two-day policy meeting, the...Tags: Employment, Government Debt, Money and Monetary Policy, Labor Markets, Central Bank
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Initial jobless claims drop to more than five-year low of 324,000
WASHINGTON -- Initial jobless claims dropped last week to their lowest level in more than five years, countering recent signals that the economic recovery is slowing. The number of people filing for the first time for unemployment benefits fell to 324,...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Economic Indicator, Unemployment Rate, Labor Markets, Unemployment Benefits
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Corbett says drug use costing jobs
HARRISBURG — When Gov. Tom Corbett took office in 2010, he inherited a $4 billion deficit that he plugged with massive cuts to public schools, universities and human services programs while leaving the prisons budget untouched and not raising taxes....
Tags: Regional Authority, Energy Resources, Bill Clinton, Tom Corbett, Unemployment Benefits
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