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...Panetta and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are departing and in addition to LaHood, the heads of the Interior and Labor departments also have announced their resignations. Obama has nominated former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican, to...
...at news of the jobless uptick."The U.S. jobless rate rose to 8.2 percent from 8.1 percent in April, the Labor Department said. That report does not include the number of people who are unemployed and have given up looking for employment...
...in the U.S. economy. According to the U.S. Labor Department there were only 163,000 jobs added in July. That's...candidate for president Mitt Romney following the Labor Department report. Romney called the higher unemployment rate...
U.S. Labor Department reports that 4,000 jobless claims were filed for the period ending Aug. 18. That's 3.32 million Americans out of work and...
...mention the past 30 months. That ignores job losses during his presidency up until that point. According to the Labor Department, about 4.5 million total jobs have been created over the past 30 months. But some 4.3 million jobs were lost...
...families that have turned to the government for help when they lost their means of self-support. Yesterday, U.S. Labor Department reported that unemployment benefits increased by 46,000 last week. That doesn't appear to be an improvement...
...causing this growing shortfall? Well, the USPS has to pre-fund its employee compensation payment to the U.S. Labor Department.According to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, "We are walking a financial tightrope." Donahoe then posed...
...thought I should bring to your attention, if others haven't already. Your first paragraph states, "U.S. Labor Department reports that 4,000 jobless claims were filed for the period ending Aug. 18." That is inaccurate. The actual...
August's jobs report was dismal. "Nonfarm payrolls increased only 96,000 last month, the Labor Department said Friday. While the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent from 8.3 percent in July, because so many Americans gave...