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California State University officials may have followed federal guidelines in reporting that stimulus money saved an inordinate number of campus jobs, but someone in the university system should have objected to reporting the numbers because "they don't make sense," California's stimulus watchdog official said Friday.
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Small businesses, pessimistic about the economy and frustrated by a lack of access to credit, are holding off on hiring, according to a new nationwide poll of small firms. The poll, released Thursday by Chicago business consultancy George S. May International Co., found that three of every four businesses responding had no plans to add staff in the next three months.
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Non-farm job losses slowed September to October for the seventh consecutive month, Automatic Data Processing reported Wednesday. ADP revised its August to September job losses to 227,000 from 254,000 and said the most recent month saw a loss of 203,000 additional jobs. Job losses are slowing, but the aggregate number of losses continues to increase.
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Employees who do not get paid for sick days are reporting to work ill, raising fears they could be spreading the H1N1 flu virus, U.S. health officials say.
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The $787 billion stimulus package passed in January is credited with saving or creating 388,000 jobs in 33 states, reports from individual states show.
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Work-at-home jobs sound appealing: no commuting, no dressing up for work, being your own boss. And, according to the e-mail advertisements going around, these jobs offer good pay without requiring new training -- or much actual work, for that matter.
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More than 46 percent of big corporations in the 30 countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have no women at the top decision-making levels, a UN survey said Monday.
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A Web site aimed at giving minority-owned businesses the tools they need to succeed has had a successful first several months, its CEO said today, Oct. 26.
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First-time claims for U.S. unemployment insurance benefits rose by 11,000 during the week ending Oct. 17, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Thursday.
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Because health insurance and employment go together, this year's devastating job losses have likely increased the ranks of the uninsured by four million people, including nearly 200,000 in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The estimate is provided by Families USA, a Washington organization that focuses on consumer health care and supports improvements.
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