Archive for the ‘Job Market’ Category
Jobs cuts in the U.S. continue into the fall, contributing to an already bleak outlook for the rest of 2008
I’m back from a brief hiatus from blogging with some not-so-lovely news to report: the U.S. cut an additional 159,000 jobs last month, bringing the total number of positions lost so far this year to 760,000. I know, I could have picked a better time (or news story) to update OCG’s blog with, but I’m [...]
Summertime not a happy time for U.S. payroll employment; July’s BLS report another downer
Remember way back in February, when I mentioned how I love when the employment situation report is released on the first of the month? And how the rotten numbers from January had overshadowed that efficiency and ruined my fun. Well, here we are six months later, and it looks like my fun’s been spoiled again. [...]
More job cuts in construction in June, slowed growth in health care, and consistent revisions in 2008 combine for an off-putting BLS report
After skimming through the employment situation report released by the BLS last Thursday morning, I’m starting to think that I could write these reports myself. Save for the minor issue of having credible statistics that are validated by real surveys, anyone who even haphazardly keeps up with the reports could have been able to predict [...]
May brings another round of job losses to the U.S. and a heightened unemployment rate
Well, fellow employment situation report enthusiasts, it seems as though 2008 is just not shaping up to be our year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its report for May this past Friday, and I’m sorry to say that the streak lives on: five months in a row that our country has posted a net [...]
Promising gains in the service industries aren’t resilient enough to lift the country out of its job slump in April
Another Friday has come and gone with news of a decline in U.S. jobs. For the fourth month in a row, the employment situation report released by the BLS has reflected industry losses and gains that amount to an overall drop in the nation’s payroll totals. To be fair, a loss of 20,000 positions in [...]
Forgive me, but I come bearing more bad news about the U.S. job market
So it looks as though things just got worse. Following a loss of 63,000 positions in February, the U.S. sliced another 80,000 positions off its total number of jobs in March. Oh, and the payroll numbers from January and February (which, as you can tell from above, were pretty pathetic to begin with), [...]
February brings another loss in jobs, let’s hold out hope that it won’t get any worse.
Revision fever hits again! If I did have an obsession with payroll numbers being revised, our country’s Bureau of Labor Statistics would certainly be fueling my obsession on a consistent basis.
February’s employment situation report, released this morning, reveals that the payroll totals from December and January have both been adjusted downward. These revisions [...]
The U.S. loses jobs in January, and a year’s worth of revisions for the BLS
I’m not sure why, but I absolutely love when the release date for the Bureau of Labor Statistics payroll report falls on the first of the month. It just feels efficient. I know that makes me sound like a geek, so maybe you’ll be amused to find out that my good mood was [...]
Not so new news: Your chosen field can impact your earnings just as much as your level of education
New research and data tables released by the U.S. Census Bureau today reveal that workers with quality vocational training can earn just as much as their counterparts with college degrees. The tables represent a study entitled What It’s Worth: Field of Training and Economic Status in 2004, and they analyze issues such as: the [...]
Employment a problem in your town? These U.S. cities may have more to offer…
I was skimming through some of the recent posts I’ve written for OnlineCareerGuide.com, and I noticed that most of them were based on career-specific news, articles, and statistics. I wanted to shift gears a bit today, so I chose to write about locations instead. Yesterday Forbes.com published its list of the “Best Cities [...]