Category Archives: Unemployment
Real Unemployment Closer to 11 Percent
We’ve helped explain to our readers the difference between the typically advertised unemployment rate which is officially called the U-3 rate. We’ve also explained U-6 rate that is often shocking to see because is much higher than the advertised U-3 … Continue reading
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US Army Cuts 8700 jobs
Today the US Army is cutting 8,700 jobs through a mix of strategies like early retirement, attrition and buyouts. The cuts affect workers in 37 states and 70 locations. Read the full story.
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State of Michigan Launches new Job Portal
A majority of our readers are in Michigan no doubt from our great MARVIN coverage which you can find here. Not everyone these days that wants a new job however is currently unemployed you’re just in Career Purgatory like the … Continue reading
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Tagged job search, state of mi job portal, state of mi jobs, state of michigan careers
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Focus Hope Will Continue
A key job training facility for Detroiter’s Focus Hope was given a $1 million grant from MEDC to continue jobs training efforts. The group had cut its staff as its funding had run out. You can read about the impact … Continue reading
Unemployment Rate Decrease Smokescreen
You may have heard that this week the unemployment rate (U-3) decreased today to 8.6 percent. Well allow us to turn a fan on and explain that it is a smokescreen. Take a look at how unemployment rates work here. … Continue reading
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Congress Still Working on Unemployment Extension
With the clock ticking as usual Congress has been working to extend unemployment compensation for millions of unemployed Americans. Wall Street Journal Some of the usual holdups are funding of unemployment and length of time to extend the compensation for. … Continue reading
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NELP Petition to Renew Unemployment
The National Employment Law Project (NELP) has created a petition to get Congress to renew unemployment benefits that expire December 31, 2011 for millions of American’s. Unemployment stats Average job search is taking more than 9 months for laid off … Continue reading
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MARVIN Now Excludes Third Party Education Employees
For those of you keeping up to date on Michigan unemployment law it was recently changed by Michigan House Bill 4452. The law amends the Michigan Employment Security Act. In the event that you are an employee of a third … Continue reading
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Veteran’s Day Closures, UIA and MI Works!
Thanks for serving to all of our to our Veteran readers. Now anyone that needs to visit a Michigan Unemployment office or a Michigan Works! location to get unemployment issues resolved will need to wait until Monday as offices are … Continue reading
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Advanced Micro Devices AMD Lays off 1,400 workers
We generally do not break out individual corporate layoffs. But we have been getting traffic for weeks leading up to this and feel we need to help direct people to the news. AMD has cut 1,400 workers today or about … Continue reading
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Tagged AMD 2011 layoff, AMD layoff, AMD layoffs, amd layoffs 2011, headcount reduction, layoff
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