The monthly employment report was released at 8:30 EDT Friday. Surprisingly, it was very bullish. Private non-farm payrolls grew by 2.5 MM, the market had expected a drop of 8 MM. The headline unemployment rate fell to 13.3% when it was expected to rise to 19.7%. The broader U6 unemployment...

Ah yes, the American Industrial Machine at its best. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html?emc=edit_th_20150604&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=53435887

I called my boss today. After a really bad day I said "I quit." He laughed, I then said "Come pick up your truck." He stopped laughing and tried to talk me out of it. A few minutes later a corporate drone (who had not gotten the memo) called me thinking that I still worked for them with a...

Hi there, I've followed your discussions in here with great interest since I do plan to move to America (if I ever get lucky enough to get a Green Card, but a few of you already know that). However, I'm entirely new to the changes you guys have had the last few years (O-Care...etc.), and there...

So now I have three jobs and I will have to tell one or two of them no. That would be easy if one were good and the others bad, in that case we are talking about 3 bad jobs......So I hope that taking one will not screw up my chances for better employment later. I have never quit a job or told a...

I have seen comments in various threads about the importance of skills for a collapse scenario and what the best skills might be. I am not so much talking about survival skills for living in the wilderness as I am skills that are useful in society. As a way to prepare for the future I am looking...

Do you want your nations population to increase or decrease? Reason I ask is because politicians here want to double our nations population in the next 20-30 years. I'm not sure why I'd want to live in such a crowded country though.

Inside info - network engineer jobs Hey guys, this is for up to 20 or 25 positions in Ft. Bliss, El Paso, Tx, & Ft. Hood, Killeen, Tx. Possibly other places later. A contract company with the US Army needs some people, preferably knowledgeable in (but not holding their breath for) their...

The following article has some interesting stats on the actual - not government reported - unemployment in the USA. Many of us here have known instinctively for months that the true unemployment numbers, reflecting people who have given up trying to find work, the underemployed, part-timers...