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Cry of the banshee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... participation rate fell to 64.1% -- the lowest since March 1984 -- from 64.2% in May. Based on the official Bureau of Statistics (BLS) report, private sector hiring was more than 100K lower in June than that reported by ADP the previous day - it increased ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... in the previous month because Americans have simply given up looking for work. This is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website: "The number of unemployed reentrants to the labor force fell by 286,000 in May, offsetting an increase in April." ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... for a 15,000 gain - following a loss of 150,000 workers in the previous month. Because of revisions to the labour stats, the BLS now estimates that a total of 8.4 million jobs were loss since the start of the recession - more than a million more than ...
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