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Department of Labor Statistics shows unemployment down year over year

Unemployment statistics released for the week ending October 27 (announced today) show unemployment claims are down slightly from the same period in 2006. In spite of some recent doom and gloom...

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Latest jobless figures show that the news is not all bad.

In spite of slow economic growth and recent bad news about the price of oil, the US dollar and real estate, labor seems to be responding with calmness. Jobless figures are not climbing, according to an...

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Employment Insurance claims increase this week

According to statistics released by the US Department of Labor today, the week ending Nov. 24, there were initial claims of 352,000, an increase by 23,000 over the previous week’s revised number of...

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US and European jobless rates

Here’s a look at some unemployment rates from around the US and the rest of the world. On the surface of things, Europe is recording some record lows in unemployment. Around the US, though, there are...

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Employment insurance claims down slightly, week over week

For the week ending Jan. 19, advance figures for seasonally adjusted initial employment insurance claims was 301,000, a decrease of 1,000 from the previous week’s (revised ) figure of 302,000,...

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CIANBRO plans to hire 500 skilled workers in 2008

Maine’s battered skilled-trades work force is about to get a big break from CIANBRO. Where last year saw hundreds of layoffs after two mill closings and other widespread layoffs in that state, CIANBRO...

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No Worker Left Behind

The state of Michigan has initiated a job retraining program called No Worker Left Behind. Keith W. Cooley, director of the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth says that the department has...

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East Hartford area leaders agree on the challenge of the skilled trades deficit

East Hartford, Connecticut is yet another municipality addressing the growing skilled trades shortage. Last week, in an open-ended meeting between local business leaders, Senator Gary LeBeau and three...

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