Topic: Job Growth

DesertSun Articles

  1. US jobless aid applications fall to 5-year low

    • May 09, 2013
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    Much of the job growth has come from fewer layoffs -- not increased hiring. Layoffs fell in January to the lowest level on records dating back 12 years, though they have risen...

  2. U.S. unemployment rate at four-year low of 7.5 percent

    • May 03, 2013
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    The job growth in April -- and far more jobs added in February and... The stronger job growth suggests... The job growth is occurring while the U.S. economy is growing modestly but...

  3. Existing home sales dip in March

    • Apr 22, 2013
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    The housing market is not only being helped by pent-up demand, job growth in an improving economy and investor buyers, but also by continued low interest rates. For the week...

  4. Jobless benefit applications plunge

    • Apr 11, 2013
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    That followed four months in which job growth averaged 220,000. Last week's drop in applications for unemployment aid could signal that hiring is picking up in April....

  5. 2013 seen as key year in recovery

    • Apr 11, 2013
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    The good news is that, overall, California tied for third in job growth during 2012, and the state has recouped nearly 60 percent of the 1.3 million jobs lost in recent years....

  6. Applications for US jobless aid reach 5-year low

    • Mar 14, 2013
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    Investors appeared to view the report as further evidence that job growth ... Still, the economy should generate steady job gains this spring, Dwyer says, even if monthly job growth ...

  7. Longer workweek could create more jobs

    • Mar 11, 2013
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    Many economists have expected sequestration to slow job growth ... Many economists have expected sequestration to slow job growth by midyear unless Congress and President Barack Obama...

  8. The American economy: Recovery 1, austerity 0

    • Mar 08, 2013
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    Instead, austerity has so far mostly rolled off the economy's back, leaving job growth stronger than it was in the fall even after the government revised up its initial...

  9. Jobs in restaurants pick up

    • Oct 05, 2012
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    Top 5 spots in food and drink job growth: The states that had the highest percentages of job growth among... Top 4 states in hotel job growth: Hawaii, Texas, Louisiana and New...

  10. Jobless claims fall by 12,000

    • Sep 07, 2012
    • DESERTSUN

    And ADP said July job growth was... The ADP survey covers only hiring in the private sector and excludes government job growth ... Still, most economists expect only modest job growth ...

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