Sentences with phrase «us jobless»

It can mask weakness in the market if there are large numbers of discouraged workers, as in the U.S. which now has a lower jobless rate than Canada despite a poor job creation record.

The level of new jobless claims is «quite crucial, I think, to how the economy is going to perform going forward,» said Desjardins.

There has been a fairly sustained increase in job creation over at least the last five months, Desjardins said, and the level of initial jobless claims has been decreasing.

That suggests ongoing job growth in an economy many regard as near full employment, with the jobless rate at a 17 - year low of 4.1 percent.

U.S. indexes were mainly lower amid earnings reports from the American banking sector and data showing a continuing decline in jobless insurance claims and tame inflation.

On Thursday, the U.S. Labor Department announced that the number of new jobless claims had hit its lowest mark in five and a half years, down 19,000 to 326,000.

And the U.S. Labor Department said that claims for jobless benefits declined last week by 2,000 to 326,000, which was in line with expectations.

Truaxe later posted another video in which he called the people who commented on his earlier post «idiots,» said anyone who accused him of having mental health issues was now jobless, and threatened to sue an unnamed journalist who wrote about him.

Employment related indicators were neutral to positive: The Department of Labor reported that Initial jobless claims declined 6000 from last week's unrevised 369,000.

The package mixed economic and social spending, helping states train displaced workers, for example, extending jobless benefits and assisting with low - income housing.

Meanwhile, weekly jobless claims totaled 209,000 last week, below a forecast of 230,000.

Roughly 80 % of startup owners have voluntarily left the cubicle and are pouring their energies into their own businesses, a much higher figure than during the jobless recoveries of the 1990s and 2000s, writes economist Benjamin Tal in a recent CIBC report.

The company that lost billions, suffered a humiliating defeat here and endured an ordeal that left its employees drained, exhausted and ultimately jobless, titled the website for Canuck shoppers «Target loves Canada.»

Jobless claims and same store sales were mildly positive.

I was lucky enough to get a contract gig that kept me working until my due date, but by the time I delivered, I was jobless and therefore ineligible for any paid leave.

But he was hardly jobless.

People see no end to unbearable hardships, and a bleak future awaits an entire generation of jobless and seemingly hopeless youth.

Leading up to Friday's data release, jobless claims came in at 240,000, just below the expected 242,000.

The jobless rate, though much lower than it was, remains a dispiriting 7.4 %, while that for those under age 24 is a staggering 16 %.

Weekly jobless claims totaled 225,000, well below an estimate of 239,000.

Though the rebound in growth over the past couple of years has seen unemployment across the bloc fall, the jobless rate remains elevated at 8.5 percent.

Some analysts believe this has helped keep wage gains stagnant even as the jobless rate has fallen because employers don't have to raise wages as much to retain talent when there is less employee turnover.

And, on Thursday, the Labor Department will release the number of weekly jobless claims for the past week.

Also, notwithstanding a silly fiscal policy and the ongoing political impasse, the U.S. economy has some very good things going for it now, as even king of doom, Nouriel Roubini, couldn't help but note: the Fed is going to stick to its asset - buying regime for the foreseeable future, providing a monetary protein shake the recovery still very much needs; the housing rebound is well on its way, which is helping Americans rebuild their wealth and is boosting employment in many states with high jobless rates; and the shale oil and gas revolution continues to power investment, job creation and revenue growth.

Since the election, groups on the right have called for boycotts of Kellogg's (for pulling ads from alt - right site Breitbart News), Starbucks (for vowing to hire refugees rather than jobless Americans), and Nordstrom (for dropping Ivanka Trump's clothing line), among others.

Weekly new applications for jobless benefits likely fell for the week ending Oct. 3.

And while May's SurePayroll Scorecard confirms that we continue with a jobless recovery, small business owners see «neutral» as pretty good.

And recessions are often presaged by certain signals: rising jobless claims; falling home sales; an inverted yield curve; wage pressures that impact corporate margins; exogenous shocks, including oil spikes; or destabilizing valuations in key asset classes.

Most we met are jobless.

Meanwhile, Grand Rapids's jobless rate stands at 9.4 percent, compared with 10.4 percent for Michigan as a whole.

The first allows those claiming Employment Insurance to earn extra income on top of their benefits, and the other inflates benefits for claimants in regions with high jobless rates.

Tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, for example, calls the jobless future «a Luddite fallacy»; he insists that people will be re-employed.

«But some jobs for low - wage workers would probably be eliminated, the income of most workers who became jobless would fall substantially, and the share of low - wage workers who were employed would probably fall slightly.»

The world's largest economy made an important leap toward sustainable recovery in January, when the jobless rate dropped below 9 %.

More than half the youth are jobless.

The study further highlighted that the number of jobless in the country will increase to 18.6 million in 2018 and 18.9 million in 2019, against 18.3 million in 2017.

They're moving forward steadily in a jobless recovery, which our data supports.

In fact, after a short - lived marriage, Rolwing found herself jobless and penniless, writing Harry Potter on napkins at various cafes in Edinburgh, Scotland with her daughter Jessica by her side.

However, 31 % of South Africa's population still lives in poverty and 22 % are jobless.

In economic news, weekly jobless claims totaled 242,000, more than the expected 225,000.

Note that Alberta's jobless rate has been higher than Ontario's in only one month since 1990 (June 1994).»

Whenever a foundry shuts down in Pittsburgh or Dayton — as a number have — Foster books a nearby motel room and interviews the jobless.

«An exceptionally short - lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless... By every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew,» Rowling said during a 2008 Harvard University commencement speech.

A 14 - year low on jobless claims reinforced expectations that slack in the labor market was being reduced.

«Automation is having a big impact,» said Martin Ford, author of «Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future,» due to be published May 5.

The Department of Labor reported that Initial jobless claims at 367,000 increased 8,000 from the prior week's unrevised figure.

Following Thursday's unexpected bump in weekly jobless claims, today brings reports on consumer sentiment as well as industrial output.

And the improved job market will continue to push the jobless rate down to 5.4 percent by the end of next year, according to the latest forecast from the National Association for Business Economics (NABE).

Weekly applications for jobless benefits have for three years held below 300,000, typically considered consistent with a healthy labor market.

The Millennial's Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the Real World,» says, «Aided by the misguided counsel of parents, they went back to school to obtain more degrees, and subsequently more debt, and many of them still remain jobless.