Category: Workplace trends

To further strengthen the national economy and increase job creation, the Obama administration recently announced competitive grant funding worth $40 million.

In July, the BLS released its most positive jobs report in months, as employment rose by 163,000, the highest monthly job creation total recorded since March.

As has been the case throughout 2012, joblessness continued to decline within a majority of the United States’ metropolitan areas in July, according to the BLS’ latest “Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment” report.

According to the BLS’ most recent “The Employment Situation” report, private sector hiring was not as extensive in August as it was in July, as the sector created 33,000 fewer jobs.

Since his inauguration in January 2009, President Barack Obama has proposed a variety of tax relief bills to improve the financial security of America’s middle class.

According to the BLS’ latest “The Employment Situation” report, the national economy generated 163,000 jobs in July, the first month in which more than 100,000 jobs were created since March.

According to the BLS’ latest “Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment” report, joblessness dropped within 328 of the United States’ 372 metro areas from June 2011 to June 2012.

For the second straight month, job growth remained widespread within a majority of the nation’s major industry groups in July, as the private sector added approximately 172,000 new jobs to the national economy.

According to the BLS’ “The Employment Situation – July 2012” report, 5.2 million Americans have been without work for at least 27 weeks, accounting for more than 40 percent of the nation’s unemployed.