Job gains in state sluggish
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California employers created just 4,900 payroll jobs in September, and the unemployment rate held steady at 5.9 percent, the Employment Development Department reported Monday.
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Fewer Americans filed jobless claims  last week and growth in worker productivity slowed sharply in  the third quarter, government data showed on Thursday, hinting  that conditions in the sluggish U.S. labor market have  improved.
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Many working families still feel no benefit from the US economic recovery, the Economic Policy Institute says. While business is improving, average wages have fallen, job satisfaction has declined and the
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The state unemployment rate held steady at 4.6 percent for the fourth consecutive month, but the state lost 3,300 payroll jobs and employers remained cautious about adding workers, the Labor Department reported yesterday.
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By Bloomberg News. The productivity of workers in the United States rose at the slowest pace in almost two years in the third quarter, a sign that companies may need to add workers at a faster rate to meet demand.
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COLUMBUS - John Kerry&#39;s campaign in Ohio seized on yesterday&#39;s Labor Department report that said the US economy added 96,000 jobs in September, a weaker total than expected in the last employment report before the Nov. 2 election.
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The economy added 112,000 payroll jobs in November, the Labor Department reported today, far fewer than the month before and not enough to keep up with average increases in the adult population.
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As America went to the polls after a bitter campaign pegged partly on the economy, a report showed a still-troubled job market, where layoffs are frequent, hiring is hesitant and improvement has been maddeningly slow.
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AMERICA&#39;S payrolls picked up last month, with the economy adding 144,000 jobs, slightly less than economists were forecasting and highlighting the slow and uneven recovery in the labour market that jobseekers have braved.
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Unemployment declined last month in eight of 10 states that are hotly contested in the presidential race, including Ohio where job losses and a struggling economy have boosted Democrat John Kerry&#39;s election hopes.
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The new year may be a slow one for job seekers, as few area employers expect to be hiring in the first quarter of 2005, the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey showed.
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WASHINGTON -- The productivity of American workers slowed in the spring while wage pressures increased.
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Many of the region's outer suburbs are adding jobs faster than most other large counties in the nation, Labor Department data says.
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Unemployment jumped to its highest rate in two years and new hiring slowed to a trickle in December as a cooling economy and a continued downturn in the housing sector registered soundly in the country's labor force.
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Could differences in economic performance among the states actually determine how the election shakes out?
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U.S. business productivity growth  proved surprisingly sluggish at the end of 2004 and claims for  jobless aid unexpectedly dipped last week, according to  government reports that showed a good sign for employment which  could fan inflation fears.
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Americans mark Monday's Labor Day holiday with an economy growing, albeit more slowly than in the recent past. Yet some say the tepid pace of expansion means average workers are getting few of the benefits of economic growth.