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More People Apply for Unemployment Benefits, Reversing Trend

WASHINGTON -- More people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the first increase in three weeks. Still, the broader trend points to a slowly healing jobs market. The government says applications for unemployment benefits rose 27,000 to a seasonally adjusted 412,000 for the week ended April 9. That left...

Job Openings Rise to Highest Point Since September 2008

WASHINGTON -- Businesses in February posted the largest number of job openings in more than two years, evidence that hiring is picking up as the economy grows. The Labor Department said Wednesday that employers advertised 3.1 million available jobs that month, the most since September 2008. That was the height of the...

McDonald's Announces Plans to Add 50,000 Jobs [VIDEO]

Despite Employment Perils, US Is Finally Hiring -- for These Jobs

The jobs may finally be coming back. After a financial crisis and recession that knocked more than 8.5 million people out of work and a faltering economic recovery that couldn't even produce enough new jobs to employ graduates and other new entrants to the labor force, the U.S. private sector last month created jobs at a...

Unemployment Dips to 8.9 Percent, 192K Jobs Added

WASHINGTON - Employers in February hired at the fastest pace in almost a year and the unemployment rate fell to 8.9 percent - a nearly two-year low. The economy added 192,000 jobs last month, with factories, professional and business services, education and health care among those expanding employment. Retailers, however,...

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06/02/12 High-paying industries hire, but wages fall in... Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee WI The 23,000-odd jobs Wisconsin added last year , on balance, were heavily concentrated in high-wage industries.
06/02/12 Open thread: Minimum wage, a brave new world and Daily... Source: Daily Kos A tag is a way to search for this diary.
06/02/12 What's wrong with minimum-wage jobs? Source: Redding.com - Redding CA "Retail is not a career choice it is where one turns when they can't find employment doing what they otherwise would want to do. Minimum wage allows you to buy two gallons of gas for an hour worked. You don't choose that."
06/02/12 Oliver Willis: Fox Regurgitates Specious Wisconsin... Source: County Fair Fox News' campaign to bolster Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who faces a recall election on June 5, continued today when host Brenda Buttner, along with contributors Tobin Smith and Gary B. Smith, touted Walker's jobs creation claims as fact though official labor data show that the state has shed tens of thousands of jobs in the past year.
06/02/12 Do Tattoos Hurt Your Chances in the Job Interview? Source: Abington Patch - Abington PA According to Philly.com , tattoo-covered job seekers are facing obstacles with employers in the increasingly competitive job market.