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Quitting your job — all but unheard of during and after the Great Recession — is becoming more common again. That could mean pay raises are coming for more Americans.
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Read More »Yellen: Job market makes Fed hesitant on rate hike
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Friday that the Great Recession complicated the Fed's ability to assess the U.S. job market and made it harder to determine when to adjust interest rates.
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Read More »U.S. companies post most jobs in 7 years in May
U.S. employers advertised more jobs in May than in any month in the past seven years, a sign that this year's strong hiring trend is likely to continue.
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Read More »32 states trail U.S. as a whole in job recovery
Five years after the Great Recession officially ended, most states still haven't regained all the jobs they lost, even though the nation as a whole has.
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Read More »U.S. employers add 217K jobs; rate stays at 6.3 pct
U.S. employers added 217,000 jobs in May, a substantial gain for a fourth straight month, fueling hopes that the economy will accelerate after a grim start to the year.
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Read More »U.S. regains private jobs lost in recession, but so what?
The U.S. economy has reached a milestone: It has finally regained all the private-sector jobs it lost during the Great Recession.
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Read More »Abandoned horses struggle to recover after recession
WOODBINE — Hundreds of Maryland’s horses are homeless, abandoned by people who could not afford to care for them in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Horse ownership increased in the decade prior to the economic downturn in 2009. But ...
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Read More »Newsmaker: Levin aims to stay in ‘the sweet spot’
Saul Ewing LLP’s incoming managing partner Barry F. Levin has a rule: If there’s a problem, wait 24 hours.
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Read More »Dems say it’s time for GOP to unite, end shutdown
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama decided to stay home from economic summits in Asia as Democrats stepped up pressure on congressional Republicans to rein in their tea party faction and reopen the government with no strings attached. House Republicans said ...
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Read More »Consumer confidence dips as jobs outlook dims
WASHINGTON — Americans’ confidence in the economy fell slightly in September from August, as many became less optimistic about hiring and pay increases over the next six months. The Conference Board, a New York-based private research group, said Tuesday that ...
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