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• Rachel Maddow takes on corporations defending child and forced labor

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 416
  Tim Newman, Campaigns Director, International Labor Rights Forum Recently, Rachel Maddow picked up on an article written by David Sirota about how business groups are lobbying against provisions in a customs bill that contains provisions banning the importation of goods produced by convict labor, forced labor or ...
  2 days ago

• Importance of the October Jobs Report Dissected

  
  Jutia Group — Authority: 573
  We can ignore the debates over this lagging indicator… The Labor Department reported on Friday that 190,000 more jobs were lost in October, only slightly worse…
  4 days ago

• Battle Of The Labor Surveys (Why jobless rate will decline by a percentage point or more in 2010)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  Despite the fact that headline "payroll" job losses are significantly smaller than earlier this year, the unemployment rate spiked to 10.2% in October. This is the highest since the aftermath of the brutal 1981-1982 recession, when the jobless rate peaked at 10.8%. Many are arguing that the unemployment rate is the ...
  4 days ago

• US economy shed 190,000 jobs in October, above forecasts of 175,000

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 151
  US Chems, Plastics Cut Jobs As Oct Unemployment Surges To 10.2%November 6, 2009ICIS NewsHOUSTON – Jobs in the US chemicals and plastics industries each declined 0.1% month over month in October while the overall US unemployment rate skyrocketed to a 26-year high at 10.2%, the Labor Department said on Friday.US ...
  5 days ago

• Strategery

  
  Corrente — Authority: 622
  [I thought Id update and re-post this, since with HR3962 our GENIUS Dems have really outdone themselves their indefatigable efforts to preserve the two-party system by giving the Republicans ever better odds in 2010 and 2012. Not that it matters to them; theyre all made in Versailles by now anyhow. --lambert] ...
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• Honesty about Jobs

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  Over the weekend, aside from the health care bill, the big topic was jobs: is the stimulus working, will it bring more jobs, and how will unemployment numbers affect the fate of the Obama administration?  The Washington Post ’s Alec MacGillis writes that “the White House thinks the stimulus is working, and it ...
  5 days ago

• Another interesting freight tidbit from the Journal of Commerce:

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  “U.S. Sheds Transport Jobs in October John D. Boyd | Nov 6, 2009 6:47PM GMT The Journal of Commerce Online - News Story …..Freight transportation employment fell again in October, the Labor Department said, and many of their major customer groups shed jobs as well. …..Measured by the raw numbers supplied by ...
  5 days ago

• OMG: Broader Measure of U.S. Unemployment Stands at 17.5%!!!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  “The official jobless rate excludes millions of people who have given up looking for work and part-time workers who want to be working full time. With the release of the jobs report on Friday, the broadest measure of unemployment and underemployment tracked by the Labor Department has reached its highest level in ...
  1 week ago

• Consumer spending falls victim to debt repayment

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 661
  Filed under: Costco Wholesale (COST) , Gap Inc (GPS) , Federal Reserve , Recession Consumer borrowing fell for the eighth straight month in September. This record-setting streak is due largely to tightening by lenders, unemployment and the conservative preference to pay down debt rather than spend. This ...
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• Broader Measure of Unemployment Stands at 17.5%

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 145
  The official jobless rate excludes millions of people who have given up looking for work and part-time workers who want to be working full time.
  1 week ago

• Top 10 News Items 11/02-11/06: Unemployment Rate Now Over 10%, F...

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  Here is a list of the top news items from this week on Wall Street: 1. The unemployment rate rose over 10% this week, marking the first time since 1983. Data from the labor department showed that employers cut another 190,000 jobs last month, pushing the rate of unemployment up from Septembers 9.8%. Although ...
  1 week ago

• US jobless rate at 26 year high, crosses 10 percent mark

  
  Global Crisis News — Authority: 471
  Unemployment in the US increased more than expected last month to record  a 26 year high as employers continued to cut jobs, showing signs that that the struggle in the labor market carries on as the country’s economy tries to come out of recession. According to reports by the Labor Department, household surveys ...
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• Employee productivity up close to 10%

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 661
  Filed under: Employees , Economic data , Recession Work smarter not harder. Do more with less. Increase your output. Become more productive. Youve heard all this before, right? What it all means is that layoffs are coming, and the survivors are going to have to take on a hell of a lot more work, with no ...
  1 week ago

• Obama extends economic aid

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  President Obama signed into law Friday a $24 billion economic-stimulus package to provide additional unemployment and tax benefits to Americans still struggling through the countrys worst recession since Word War II. The Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009 will provide laid-off workers with up to ...
  1 week ago

• Soup Lines VS Food Stamps

  
  THE WORLD ACCORDING TO DR CASTRO — Authority: 422
  The number of Americans relying on food stamps to feed their families has increased tremendously. The country that has lead the world financially for decades has about 36,492 million citizens collecting food stamps. That means that about one in eight Americans are currently receiving this benefit. This is how I ...
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• US productivity jumps to 9.5% in Q-3

  
  StockPreacher — Authority: 142
  Productivity in the US non-farm-business sector grew at an annual rate of 9.5% in Q-3 Y 2009, the biggest quarterly gain in six years, the US Labor Department reported Thursday. The Q-3 reading for productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, was also better than the 6.4% gain that economists had estimated. ...
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• U.S. jobs rate soars to 10.2%

  
  USATODAY.com Money - Block — Authority: 837
  The U.S. unemployment rate tops 10%  for first time since 1983, the Associated Press reports.
  1 week ago

• Those still working are busier than ever

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 148
  The Labor Department says productivity grew at the fasted rate in six years. That means people who still have their jobs are working harder and producing more than they used to. Jeremy Hobson reports.
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• A Law That Would Make It OK to Have the Flu

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  The New York Times’ Steven Greenhouse writes that the swine flue scare has triggered a re-evaluation of workplace sick day policies: Well before President Obama declared H1N1 a national emergency, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was emphasizing that businesses should adopt ...
  1 week ago

• Jobless claims inch lower, but continuing claims plunge

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 796
  Filed under: Economy Initial jobless claims unexpectedly dipped only 1,000 to 530,000 for the week ending October 24, but continuing claims plunged 148,000 to 5.797 million, the U.S. Labor Department announced Thursday . Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News had expected initial jobless claims to fall to ...
  2 weeks ago

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