The Associated Press is reporting Senate Democrats have successfully defeated a Republican filibuster and an extension of unemployment benefits to millions of Americans is on…
Bloomberg: The nation’s largest land-based oil driller, Halliburton, added 1,700 jobs in the last three months. The boom is the direct result of production shut…
California's unemployment rate has risen from 11.9 percent in May to 12.3 percent in June, according to the California Employment Development Department. The net loss…
Businessweek: In the wake of a congressional investigation into a recall of children’s medicine, Johnson & Johnson announced yesterday that it will close down the…
The Chicago Tribune: Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Co. announced yesterday that it has plans to cut 340 information technology jobs this year from…
Two days ago, General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt issued a $200 million ‘challenge’ to the Obama administration, reports CNN Money. The challenge, which came at…
The Chicago Tribune: Michigan’s governor Jennifer Granholm said yesterday that within the next 10 years, the electric car could create upwards of 62,000 jobs in…
Initial unemployment claims were down last week by about 29,000. The adjusted four week average is at 455,250. However, the total number of those unemployed…