Topic: Job Growth
Job market gauge rises for 5th month: Conf Board
Reuters US Online Report Business News
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. job market improved in January for the fifth consecutive month, pointing to possible job growth in the first quarter of this year, a research group said on Monday. The Conference Board, a private research group, said its Employment Trends Index climbed to 93.2 ...
Obama, GOP sparring over job creation proposals
AP News
Obama, GOP bicker over job creation plans; shows tough sledding toward bipartisan solutionsRepublicans sparred with President Barack Obama in their Saturday media addresses over proposals to create jobs, further evidence of the difficulty of bipartisan solutions to the nation's pressing problems. Obama pushed Congress to use $30 billion that ...
Drop in jobless rate points to modest improvement
AP News
Drop in unemployment to 9.7 pct shows modest improvement, but employers remain slow to hireThe job market is lurching toward improvement. It just has a long way to go. The outlook for jobs became a bit less bleak Friday when the government released January's unemployment rate showing an ...
Economy 101: 12 pct of recent vets unemployed
AP News
Economy 101: Recent vets report higher unemployment than non-vetsVeterans of the Afghan and Iraq Wars are more likely to be unemployed than non-veterans, while the foreign-born and disabled are more likely to be jobless than the general population. These figures were included for the first time Friday in the Labor ...
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