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Listen to article US job growth picked up in February and the unemployment rate edged up to 4.1%, but growing uncertainty over trade policy and deep federal government spending cuts could erode the labor market’s resilience in the months ahead. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 151,000 jobs last month after rising by a downwardly revised 125,000 in January, the…
SINGAPORE: Half of the respondents in a university graduate employment poll who were unemployed six months after graduation had received job offers, Minister of State for Education Gan Siow Huang said on Friday (Mar 7). In this group, two-thirds were going to start work “in due course”, while the remaining one-third rejected the offers for various…
The latest job numbers released by Statistics Canada show a city in Alberta has the highest unemployment rate of any major Canadian city. According to the January report, Red Deer tops the list with the unemployment rate sitting at 9.7 per cent. That’s down slightly by 10 per cent from December. Meanwhile, in the province’s…
A “Do not cross” sign is illuminated at a crosswalk outside of U.S. Capitol building in Washington, US, November 10, 2024. Hannah Mckay | Reuters The Trump administration emailed more than 2 million federal workers this week, giving them the option to resign now and get pay and benefits through Sept. 30. Workers have until…
Job growth was much stronger than expected in December, likely providing the Federal Reserve less incentive to cut interest rates this year. Nonfarm payrolls surged by 256,000 for the month, up from 212,000 in November and above the 155,000 forecast from the Dow Jones consensus, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The unemployment rate…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A jump in new jobs helped bring the Canadian unemployment rate down a tick to 6.7 per cent in December, according to Statistics Canada. Canadian employers collectively added some 91,000 net new jobs last month, the agency said. Most of the growth was in full-time work. Job…
