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18 hours ago ago from Manufacture This
The Nation reports a troubling set of statistics : Total number of nonfarm private-sector jobs as of October 1999, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics: 109,487,000. Total number of nonfarm private-sector jobs as of October 2009: 108,401,000. Net difference: -1,086,000. Gain in US population from 1999 to 2009: 34,573,000. Bottom line: over the last 10 years, the U.S. gained 34.5 million people but lost a net one million ...
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12 hours ago ago from The Young Professional Blogs Aggregator
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that Americans change jobs about 10 times between the ages of 18 and 42. If job changers had an 401k account at just half of those
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5 hours ago ago from New Hampshire Watchdog
Jarret Bencks reports in the Eagle-Tribune that the jobs that the federal government's Recovery.gov website claims to have produced just aren't there. The housing authority submitted the total number of people who worked on the project, but they were supposed to submit a figure that would reflect the job creation over a year-long period. Kierstead said they tried to correct the error online, but couldn't. So data available to the ...
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18 hours ago ago from Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship
How can we create more jobs? The conventional wisdom is that [small] businesses account for half of the labor force and are therefore the engine of future job creation. That's not quite the case. The more precise factor is not the size of businesses, but rather their age, say Carl Schramm, Robert Litan, and Dane Stangler. Read the rest at the Wall Street Journal.
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18 hours ago ago from Blog Indeed
We’ve just released our Job Postings Per Capita index for the UK. The 15 most populous urban areas are ranked by the number of job postings for every thousand people during the month of November 2009. The map illustrates the data: the bigger the dot, the more job postings there are per capita. Job Postings per Capita is a measure of job competition. Lower ranked areas have fewer jobs available per person and more competition for each ...
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Faye Anderson: Obama's Modest Jobs Proposal
54 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
President Barack Obama unveiled his jobs package last week. Obama hopes that a stimulus do-over will accelerate job creation and reduce unemployment. Obama's jobs proposal includes more of the same: more money to the states for fiscal stabilization, more weatherization initiatives , more infrastructure spending. But simply sending more money to the states and hoping for a better ROI than the stimulus package would be insane. States and ...
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