Good News on Good Friday — Payrolls Surge in March

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:35:36 +0000

The U.S. Labor Department reported today that the U.S. economy added 162,000 nonfarm jobs last month. So, put aside the worries that it will take a lot of similarly-strong months to make up for the eight million jobs lost since the recession began at the end of 2007 and the fact that many of the gains came from temporary and part-time jobs and other caveats too. President Obama declared that the U.S. economy was “beginning to turn the corner.” For the TV shopping networks, which largely turned their own corner last year, the notion that more and more of their customers will be catching up to them is very good news. The New York Times Apr. 2, 2010

U.S. Sheds 533,000 Jobs in November

admin — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:45:55 +0000

The eleventh straight month of job losses brought the year-to-date total to 1.9 million and sent the unemployment rate up to 6.7 percent. There is even more bad news in the source article, if you can bring yourself to look at it. The New York Times Dec. 5, 2008

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Good News on Good Friday — Payrolls Surge in March

U.S. Sheds 533,000 Jobs in November