US jobless rate dips to 7.5%, a four-year low
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The U.S. economy’s job-creation engine revved up in April, defying expectations that government budget cuts and a cold start to spring in much of the nation conspired to slow hiring.
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Looking for a big increase in the minimum wage? Don’t bank on it.
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America’s 3.6 million minimum-wage workers will get a nearly 40 percent pay raise, if Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has his way.
A few weeks after President Barack Obama touted a minimum wage increase to $9.00 in his State of the Union speech, the veteran senator introduced a plan to go even further, raising the low end of legal earnings from $7.25 to $10.10. For a person working 40 hours a week and 52 weeks a year, Harkin’s bill would mean an increase of $5,928.
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Michigan will become the nation’s 24th right-to-work state after Republicans in the state legislature approved historic changes to the state’s labor laws over the strenuous objections of Democrats and union members.
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The unemployment rate dropped to 7.7 percent in November, the lowest in four years, as the U.S. economy generated a stronger-than-expected 146,000 jobs, the Labor Department said Friday.
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Banking giant Citigroup announced Wednesday that it would cut about 11,000 jobs, or about 4 percent of its global work force, and shutter some branches in an attempt to save as much as $1.1 billion a year in costs.
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The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits dropped to a 4-1/2 year low last week, suggesting that hiring may be picking up after stalling since the spring.
The nation’s unemployment rate dropped to the lowest it has been in almost four years in September, giving President Barack Obama a potential upbeat talking point as the presidential race heads into the final innings.
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The Great Recession has affected nearly every person in the United States. But the recovery has fared better in some parts of the country than others. 24/7 Wall St. looked at the 10 metropolitan areas with the largest employment growth between June 2009, near the peak of the recession, and June 2012.
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There are still to many Americans still looking for work, President Barack Obama said Friday in reaction to July’s jobs numbers, renewing his demand that Congress extend expiring tax cuts for most U.S. households.
Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, speaking at the same time in the swing state of Nevada, highlighted a report showing the economy added 163,000 jobs in July as an indictment of the president’s economic policies.
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Lots of you aren’t tweeting, facebooking or linkedin-ing, and that could spell doom for your job search.
Today, a majority of recruiters are using social networking sites to find job candidates so your aversion to these cyber communities may end up keeping you out of the happily-employed community.
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POLAND, Ohio — It took President Obama about 10 minutes before addressing today’s sluggish jobs report, showing just 80,000 jobs created and the unemployment rate unchanged at 8.2 percent.
But he said the economy overall is heading “in the right direction.” He blamed any sluggishness not on his policies, but on a “stalemate in Washington.”
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Natalie got an earful (of whoopee cushion) today.
Jony Ive redesigns the NBC News logo.
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