The Other Jobs Number

Published on 09 July 2009 by David in Employment Trends

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If you’re out of work then you’re all too familiar with the unemployment rate – 9.5% and rising.  But in the July 8th Wall Street Journal, Conor Dougherty reported on another jobs number that doesn’t get nearly as much attention – the Job Openings Rate.  That’s the number of jobs actually available at any given [...]

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When I headed to lunch yesterday I took along last week’s Time Magazine cover story on the future of work http://tinyurl.com/r7pu6h. It was a great accompaniment to my yankee bean soup and tuna sandwich. The article is actually a series of 10 essays from a group of Time reporters who specialize in [...]

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