Posts with tag employment

The nation's struggling jobs picture continue to improve in October, despite ongoing concern about the anemic economic recovery, two reports showed Wednesday. Private employers in the U.S. added 110,000 jobs last month, according to the ADP National Employment Report, more than the 101,000 analysts expected, Reuters... Continue Reading »

By David Schepp As the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests show, many in America's middle class are angry about the uneasy economic circumstances in which they find themselves. Most typical wage earners have endured decades of stagnant wages even as costs for food, health care, housing and college tuition have continued... Continue Reading »

Mindful of today's anemic job market and focused on their long-term financial security, many Americans mulling a home purchase in a new setting weigh the area's employment prospects as much as its real estate market. Before potential homebuyers throw themselves into decades-long financial commitments, they want to know... Continue Reading »

Summer: Time for flip-flops, beach vacations and the hunt for that first post-college job for recent grads. According to the job search engine, Juju.com, certain towns offer better career opportunities than others. Measuring a city's unemployed population versus the number of advertised positions, Juju's June list ranks... Continue Reading »

Good news for the economy: employers created more than 100,000 new jobs in March. Non-farm payrolls increased by 162,000, the the biggest increase since the start of the financial crisis in 2008. More than a quarter of those jobs, 48,000, were temporary workers hired to help with the U.S. Census. But that still leaves... Continue Reading »

With rates still low, why are mortgage applications falling? Here's the short answer: The unemployment rate, which isn't falling. Despite the extension of the government's special tax credit for new home buyers, and the fact that interest rates on 30 year fixed-rate mortgages remain at rock bottom (averaging 5.02... Continue Reading »

Does Walmart add to homeowners' quality of life when it moves in to a new urban neighborhood? Not necessarily, so says a recent study. Some might welcome having the same opportunity suburbanites do to buy fishing gear, a new printer and cheap socks all in one place. But those looking to Walmart to create jobs or stimulate... Continue Reading »

This is my first post for AOL Real Estate. I am honored to be part of the new AOL. But if this is AOL Real Estate, why then am I writing about jobs? Because employment growth is key to ending the real estate depression (yes, depression) we have all been suffering through for more than a year. The key to real estate... Continue Reading »