Conn. trying to shake a sluggish job market
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NEW HAVEN -- A sluggish job market in Connecticut is raising concerns that something is amiss in a state long synonymous with wealth.
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The unemployment rate in the Washington area continued to hover around 3 percent in November, one of the lowest rates in the nation, but the pace of hiring at local firms slowed.
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By Denise Trowbridge, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 4--It's become a real job trying to figure out today's job market.   Consider these colliding trends: U.S.
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WASHINGTON -- Employers boosted payrolls by a better-than-expected 132,000 jobs in June, enough to keep the unemployment rate at a relatively low 4.5 percent. It was another sign that the economy is snapping out of a nearly yearlong sluggish spell.
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The latest batch of disappointing U.S.  employment data highlights a gap between Wall Street's economic  forecasts and the tough labor market facing nearly eight  million unemployed Americans.
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President Bush and rival John Kerry on Tuesday offered different ways to boost the sluggish job market, the president calling for legal reforms to help workers and businesses while his Democratic opponent proposed ending tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas.    Kerry, moving aggressively in the face of polls showing his candidacy lagging, used the latest forecast of a record budget deficit to bolster his contention that Bush is leading the country in the wrong direction...
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TORONTO (CP) - Stock market futures in New York pointed to a weak start Friday after the September US employment report showed 96,000 jobs created while the unemployment rate held steady at 5.4 per cent.
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Young people face a choppy job market, making it hard to cope with high housing costs and rising college debt.
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The queue of newly jobless Americans shrank last week, providing a dose of good news to the labor market.
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The number of newly laid off workers filing applications for unemployment benefits dropped last week, but not enough to indicate that strains on the labor market are easing.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Despite growing evidence of a strengthening economy, the job market remained sluggish in August, holding the unemployment rate at 7.2 per cent - unchanged from July.
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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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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 6--Time and again, the New England Fishery Management Council has proved to be a reluctant guardian of the region's commercial fishing stocks.
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The Boston Globe and The Worcester Telegram & Gazette have suffered from sluggish advertising and a migration of readers to the Internet.
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Signs of a fairly competitive job market are everywhere, unless you're looking for a big raise.
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By Tim Mekeel, Lancaster New Era, Pa.  Feb. 23--Bill Wydra Jr. wasn't ready to leave. Not just yet.    Around him, the job fair in Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology's gym  was winding down.    Students were filing out, company brochures in hand.
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The latest batch of disappointing U.S. employment data highlights a gap between Wall Street's economic forecasts and the tough labor market facing nearly eight million unemployed Americans.