Having lost 9,100 jobs across the state in the month of January, New Jersey’s 9.9% unemployment rate continues to exceed the national average. Since the beginning of the economic recession in December of 2007, 5.6% of the states total workforce now finds themselves jobless. The range of losses in the private sector are distributed across multiple industries, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 5, 2010
While the U.S. shed 36,000 non-farm payroll jobs in February, the national unemployment rate managed to hold steady at 9.7 percent, according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday. Last month’s severe winter weather that gripped much of the country likely had some negative effect on the numbers, but BLS Commissioner Keith [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 17, 2009
Pella Corp., a window and door manufacturer, is cutting 37 jobs at its Sioux City plant at the end of this week. This represents about ten percent of its workforce at the factory, which manufactures windows. The company has indicated that steep reductions in new housing starts have made the cuts neccessary. Founded in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 17, 2009
New Jersey’s Picatinny Arsenal is adding 300 jobs to its 4,000-strong workforce in New jersey. Two-hundred and twenty positions will be with the US Navy — some will be transfers from other states, and some will be local hires. The facility is planning $76 million of construction and renovations, as part of the 2005 Base Realignment and [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 15, 2009
CSX Intermodal has broken ground on a Baltimore, Maryland-area rail facility that will create hundreds of new jobs. Construction of the facility, which will complete in 2011, will create 400 temporary jobs. The firm is investing $235 million. CSX Intermodal is an intermodal company with more than 1,000 employees, serving customers from origin to destination with its [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 13, 2009
The Federal Bureau of Prisons says the agency has hired 49 employees for the federal prison in Hazelton, West Virginia. The facility, in Preston County, still has 15 vacancies. Over the next year two new prisons will open in the state, creating 600 jobs. The new positions will include guards, medical professional, human resources experts, construction workers, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 9, 2009
Irving, Texas-based Fluor Corporation will hire over 100 workers in Greenville, South Carolina, as part of a military contract to build and operate military bases in Afghanistan. The US Army contract is worth $7 billion over the next five years. Fluor will manage power, food service and transportation at 62 bases in Afghanistan, plus build and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
ADP Employer Services says US private sector employers cut 473,000 jobs in June, more than the 395,000 previously forecast. Manufacturing and construction lost 250,000 workers; service providers cut 223,000. The US Labor Department report on unemployment is due out tomorrow. Roseland, New Jersey’s Automatic Data Processing provides payroll and human-resources services to about one in every six US [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Orbital Sciences Corporation is breaking ground on a new facility at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Atlantic, Virginia, which will develop, assemble and test the Taurus II rocket. Two-hundred and fifty people will be hired for construction, and the completed facility will employ 400 high-tech workers. Orbital Sciences expects its liquid fuel Taurus II rocket to launch [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 21, 2009
Legalizing table games like poker and blackjack would create 10,000 jobs at slots casinos in Pennsylvania, according to a study. According to New Jersey’s Innovation Group, legalizing table games in Pennsylvania would create casino jobs as well as support jobs in the construction and service industries. The State House Gaming Oversight Committee will hold a meeting this [...]
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