employment

For years there were far more applicants than there were jobs. Finally things are going workers’ way, but for how long?

When is the 9-to-5 not enough? When you want the security, independence and path to wealth only a supplementary second job can provide.

Jobs numbers are up; you’re finally starting to see your hard work reflected in an increased paycheck. Too bad shaky markets say the recovery is over.

On the heels of last Friday’s better than expected employment gains, investors were surprised by the number of hours that employees actually worked according to Tuesday’s release of productivity.  Not…

The unemployment rate, as we commonly measure it, stands at just under five percent. We’re very near the level that economists consider full employment, the point at which everyone who…

Whether the economy is doing well or not may depend upon who you ask. If you ask America’s top earners and those who have consistently invested in the stock market,…

One of the puzzling aspects to the recovery since the Great Recession is that U.S. manufacturing has ticked up but U.S. manufacturing jobs have not. The prime example of why…

Employment numbers tend to become a political football. Democrats point to nearly eight years of steady job gains, while Republicans point to declining labor participation rates and underemployment. Neither side…

It may seem hard to grasp how a weak jobs report could be good for gold prices but, in our topsy-turvy modern economy where events in far corners of the…

No fooling, Americans are feeling more confident in the job market than anytime since the Great Recession. In March the U.S. added a robust 215,000 jobs, crushing expectations and raising…

We previously covered how Millennials, the younger component of the workforce, would change jobs for a $1,000 raise, even if the job wasn’t a good fit. That may be alright…

In the years following the Great Recession, when employers were getting ten or twenty qualified applicants for every position, the key to getting a job was already having a job.…