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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 9 Comments
The jobs report released today is “good” news compared to what has been. 165,000 net new jobs were added. That’s good. Approximately 230,000 net new jobs would need to be added just to keep pace with population growth, so we’re still not actually growing the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2013 9 Comments
The “unemployment rate” is a number which increasingly is just political, as we have the Obama-phenomenon of large numbers of people leaving the workforce thereby dropping the “unemployment rate” since people who leave the workforce don’t count as unemployed. Long ago a reader predicted the...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 01, 2013 30 Comments
An important premise of “The American Dream” is that a college education guarantees a successful career. However, that dream is slipping away — unless being a coffee shop barista is the job goal.  Ben Casselman of the Wall Street Journal takes a look at a...

Posted by 0387erp on March 20, 2013 22 Comments
The University of Virginia expects to incur a $7 million bill from Obamacare’s employer penalties, said Susan Carkeek, the University’s vice president and chief human resources officer. “We’re expecting fairly significant cost implications from the Affordable Care Act that pass on new penalties and charges,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2012 17 Comments
As noted the other day, Hostess is seeking lidquidation of its operations rather than trying to emerge out of bankruptcy as a going concern because it could not negotiate the union concessions it said it needed. But there may be a White Knight on the...

Posted by Anne Segal on October 05, 2012 19 Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released September jobs numbers showing the unemployment rate dropping to 7.8 percent, below 8 percent for the first time in 44 months. In addition, employers added 114,000 jobs in September. James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute referred to the report...
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