Saved by the Bell?
Stronger-than-Anticipated BLS September Jobs Report May Influence November Elections, Boost Sagging Stock Market Just in the nick of time for the November... Read More
Billionaires Zuckerberg, Slim Yearn to Become Trillionaires
Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, estimated net worth $34.2 billion, recently hobnobbed with the world’s richest man, Mexico’s Carlos Slim ($86.2 billion), to bemoan... Read More
Jobless in L.A. Hit the Street to Scratch Out a Living
Give credit to jobless Los Angeles County residents for their creativity and gumption. With the county’s official unemployment rate in July at... Read More
Illegal Workforce Isn’t Enriching California
“Nearly 1 in 10 California workers is in country illegally, study finds,” per a recent Los Angeles Times headline. The study, which... Read More
Census Bureau’s Household Survey: Only 16,000 New Jobs Added in August
I’m following up on my earlier post on the Bureau of Labor Statistics August jobs report. The economy added an anemic 142,000... Read More
Rutgers’ Report Confirms the Obvious: American Workers Unhappy, Pessimistic
What about the Immigration Variable? Ironically, just before the Labor Day weekend, Rutgers University released its report titled “Unhappy, Worried, and Pessimistic:... Read More
August Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report: Stinko!
The August Bureau of Labor Statistics report was gloomier than economists anticipated. Wall Street projected job creation would exceed 200,000, but the... Read More
Another BLS Bummer: Teen Employment Still Weak
As if the monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics reports aren’t discouraging enough, the Bureau’s regularly issued supplemental economic surveys are bummers too.... Read More
Americans, Finally Waking Up, Worry about Too Many Worker Visas
Last year, the Senate passed a massive immigration bill that would have more than doubled legal immigration within a decade. H-1B visas,... Read More
Microsoft Layoffs Disprove Worker Shortage Claim
The 18,000 laid off Microsoft workers might take cold comfort in the moribund 2013 Gang of Eight Senate bill. Had it become... Read More