California’s unemployment rate has risen from 11.9 percent in May to 12.3 percent in June, according to the California Employment Development Department. The net loss of 27,600 jobs in June represents the first consecutive monthly decline California has sustained this year. Fortunately the decline was mostly due to the government cutting 28,900 workers, the bulk of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 13, 2010
The Labor Department reported Tuesday that job openings in May dropped from the previous month and the number of layoffs increased. The disappointing news followed two-months of increases in job openings, which was largely the result of temporary Census workers, Bloomberg reports. Job openings in May fell to 3.2 million from 3.3 million the previous month, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 1, 2010
The termination of up to 250,000 temporary census jobs in June will tip unemployment figures to show a net loss of jobs for the first time in six months. “People are looking past the census effect,” said economist Alec Phillips of Goldman Sachs. The real focus on Friday when the federal unemployment report is released will be [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 17, 2010
Over the past several months, the US Census Bureau has hired over half a million people for its decennial counting of the masses. The temporary jobs created have helped prop up a still-sluggish jobs market, but the Bureau will begin laying off temporary census employees at the end of June. The first round of census [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 10, 2010
New jobless claims for the week of May 31 to June 4 fell from the previous week, but not by much. The number of new claims was 456,000, down 3,000 from the previous week but hardly indicative of strong growth in either the job market or the economy. The national unemployment rate has inched down to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 4, 2010
WSJ: According to Labor Department statistics released today, nonfarm payrolls rose by 431,000 in May. Economists, however, were expecting an additional 100,000 plus jobs. Financial markets responded accordingly to the news, registering across the board dips. Interestingly, also according to the data, only 41,000 of the 400 thousand plus jobs were in the private sector. The [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 3, 2009
The US Census Bureau is in the process of hiring one million people in preparation for next year’s nose count. Most of the jobs pay between ten and twenty dollars per hour. Democratic Senator Charles Schummer along with three other Senate Democrats is urging the Obama administration to give hiring preference to the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The United States Census Bureau’s National Processing Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana, will hire 2,000 people for the 2010 census. The hirings are being carried out in three stages, with the first group of 200 clerk hirings already underway. The clerks will be responsible for filing, processing and preparing documents, shipping, processing mail and computer work. In July, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 23, 2009
While many industries in the private sector are losing jobs and employees, the United States government will be hiring as they gear up for the next official Census in 2010. The Bureau of the Census, a part of the US Department of Commerce, plans to hire hundreds of temporary workers all across the country as [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 18, 2009
In anticipation of the 2010 nationwide census, the US Census Bureau is hiring in Washington State, with as many as 1,200 temp jobs in Eastern Washington alone. These jobs pay between about $12 and $15 an hour, and hiring is occurring right now. Applicants must call 1-866-861-2010. They will have to pass a thirty minute test, and [...]
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