ADP’s latest report showed a total that was nearly triple what economists were expecting. It’s only one month’s data, and it’s too soon to call it a hiring boom. However, the report offers more hope and some evidence that the n…
Many Wall Street pundits are surprisingly bullish about the U.S. economy for 2011, but high unemployment continues to ravage Main Street. Still, with corporate profits booming and the stock market rallying, some indicators say …
Initial jobless claims dropped by 34,000 to 407,000, much lower than expected. The numbers suggest that the labor market is slowly improving, and nearing the point of reversing the negative trend driven by the deep recession.
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Initial jobless claims unexpectedly rose 13,000 to 462,000, but continuing claims plunged another 112,000 to 4.4 million, the Labor Department announced Thursday. Some of the decline in continuing claims comes from people who have exhausted their benef…
CNBC’s Larry Kudlow blogged Tuesday that the a GOP win in November’s elections would create an explosion of U.S. job creation. One of his guests that day on The Kudlow Report was DailyFinance’s Peter Cohan, who breaks down prec…