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Physical Therapy Jobs and Salaries On the Rise

By Donald Sears ⋅ January 13, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Physical therapy jobs are expected grow 27 percent between 2006 and 2016, according to statistics from the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Salaries in the industry are also performing well and . Median salaries rose 29 percent to $74,000 from 2002 to 2008, according to the American Physical Therapy Association. The median salary [...]

Weekly Unemployment Claims Continue to Improve

By Donald Sears ⋅ November 12, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Weekly new unemployment claims have fell last week to their lowest levels since January. For the week ending Nov. 7, new claims were 502,000 and continuing claims stand at at 5.63 million, said the U.S. Department of Labor.
The unemployment rate is 10.2 percent.
President Obama recently signed legislation that allows for an extension of unemployment benefits [...]

New Job Openings Rise, But Barely

By John Hazard ⋅ November 11, 2009 ⋅ One comment

The Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, released yesterday, showed that the number of new, open positions increased slightly in August and September.
The number of unfilled positions rose 57,000 (or about 2 percent) to 2.48 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report. Openings remain down by 2.3 million, or 48 [...]

Who Are Your Jobless Peers?

By John Hazard ⋅ November 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

White women ages 25 to 44 with a college degree face the lowest unemployment rate in the country – 3.6 percent. Their male peers fall in second place – 3.9 percent. Black men and women of the same age and education groups face 6.7 and 8.3 respectively.
The jobless rate is wildly different for various subsets [...]

Temporary Hires Surge in October

By John Hazard ⋅ November 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Temporary hires surged in October, according to numbers released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
BLS statistics showed temporary help services added 44,000 jobs since July, including 34,000 last month,according to the Wall Street Journal, and the surge could be a sign of full time hiring to come.
Staffing firms say employers are turning to [...]

I’m not Unemployed, I’m Underemployed

By John Hazard ⋅ November 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Unemployment reached 10.2 percent in October, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced today, the highest rate since 1983. But the real pain of the recession lies in a less notorious number: “underemployment.”
Underemployment, what the BLS calls the “U-6 measure,” includes the jobless counted in the official unemployment rate (”U-3 measure”), plus “marginally attached workers,” [...]

Unemployment Improves for those with College Degrees

By John Hazard ⋅ November 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The unemployment rate for college graduates improved slightly in October, dropping to 4.7 percent from a peak of 4.9 percent in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The decline is the first reversal of rising unemployment for the sector since September 2008.
The improving numbers for college graduates (even as the rate of unemployment [...]

Unemployment Passes Symbolic Milestone: Double Digits

By John Hazard ⋅ November 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Unemployment passed a grim milestone Friday, climbing past 10 percent for the first time 1983.
The U.S. economy shed another 190,000 jobs in October, and the unemployment rate reached 10.2 percent, up from 9.8 percent in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There are now 15.7 million Americans who are out of work and [...]

Average Hours Worked Dips in September

By John Hazard ⋅ November 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Looking for signs of a jobs recovery on the horizon?
The rising Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and surging stock markets are encouraging and usually precede a hiring surge, but the most telling sign job growth is around the corner remains to be seen, said Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com, in an op-ed in [...]

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