Are your curls and kinks keeping you from landing a job? Black Women Worry Natural Hair Affects Employment Via HuffPo reports: Is the texture or style of your hair preventing you from being hired? Sounds like a...

Australia’s December employment figures are out. Employment fell by 5,500 in December.  Economists surveyed by Bloomberg were looking for a 4,000 gain. The unemployment rate was revised up to 5.3 percent from a previous reading of 5.2...

Earlier this morning, we learned that the Chicago PMI climbed to 51.6 in December.  This was slightly ahead of economists expectations. The gain was largely driven by a jump in the new orders sub-index. However, the employment...

TheEconomicCollapse Did you know that a smaller percentage of Americans are working today than when the last recession supposedly ended?  But you won’t hear about this on the mainstream news.  Instead, the mainstream media obsesses over the...

Last May, Governor Romney stated that in a typical recovery, monthly employment increases should be about 500,000 per month . The sheer implausibility of that statement (assessed in this post) has induced him to reduce his estimate...

China’s final HSBC manufacturing PMI climbed to 49.3 in July from 48.2 reading in June. However, this fell short of the  49.5 “Flash,” or preliminary, number, which economists consider to be a reliable forecast for the final...

India’s June manufacturing PMI came in at 55.0. This compares to 54.8 in May. “Activity in the manufacturing sector kept up the pace in June with output, and employment expanding at a faster pace,” wrote HSBC economist...