I included an earlier version of this video in a blog post some months ago, but it’s been updated and the picture is even more grim than it was earlier. The sweep of rising unemployment to a rate higher than 10% across the vast majority of the country is startling to see, but mirrors the [...]
Last weeks’ jobs report was certainly a mixed bag with a bit of something for both the optimists and the pessimists. Unemployment dropped from 10% to 9.7%, but that was due more to the quirky statistical factors and the error-prone math and flawed inputs than anything else. The economy reportedly lost 20,000 non-farm jobs in [...]
Of course a search engine is going to take the top prize in the annual advertising competition known as the Superbowl. How could they not given the drivel put forward by Doritos, GoDaddy, Skechers, and most of the other advertisers? The ads were generally disappointing this year (Monster and Careerbuilder’s spots were particularly weak), with [...]
January’s jobs report from the Department of Labor is scheduled to be released later this week and based on data released this morning by LinkUp, Friday’s report will show that the job market improved sharply during the month. LinkUp, a job search engine that indexes jobs from over 20,000 company websites throughout the U.S., reported [...]