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• Employers boost payrolls by 94,000
WASHINGTON - Employers added a solid 94,000 jobs to their payrolls in November, the unemployment rate held steady at 4.7 percent and wages grew briskly, encouraging signs the nation’s employment climate is holding up in the face of turbulence in ...
• Stocks tumble after House OKs bailout plan
Investors also appear relieved that the government’s September employment report wasn’t worse, although the Labor Department said payrolls shrank by 159,000, more than the 100,000 economists predicted. The nation’s unemployment rate remained ...
• Will bailout crimp Democrats' spending plans?
As Friday's employment data indicated, the economy is not performing well right now. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that nearly 160,000 jobs were lost last month, the ninth straight month of net job losses. Yet federal spending and borrowing ...
• Jobs: Slammed by Gustav, Ike, and Boeing
Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, as well as the Boeing (BA) strike, will conspire with an already-deteriorating labor market to depress U.S. payrolls in the September employment report, scheduled for release on Oct. 3, raising the risk of an outsize drop ...
• Think it's time to retire? Not so fast
... for fear of breaking existing pension laws. “Up until now,” the report adds, “employers were not allowed to pay retirement benefits from such a plan—as either a pension or lump-sum payment—until an employee had terminated employment or had ...