195k Jobs added in June
 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...y.html?hpid=z2

Steady as she goes, America.:)

Good news for my brothers and sisters in the building trades.http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/ima...s/thumbsup.gif

"Zandi noted that the job gains measured by ADP were broad-based. Construction employment, for example, rose by 21,000 as the housing market continues to heal. Improvement in that sector has also spilled over into the auto industry, which reported this week that June sales came close to an annual rate of 16 million vehicles — a level not seen since before the recession. Much of the demand is for trucks, which are closely linked to construction and housing." WaPo

just noticed it on the BBC.

Leading to rate rise speculation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23199688

Unfortunately still not adding enough jobs to lower the unemployment rate. That number, I believe, needs to be in the 250K to 260K range.

True that but I'll take it over the Bush legacy of '08-'09;). We might be even closer to your target if the crazies in the House would stop trying to tank everything in sight.

Lot's of construction here in the desert. Entire communities going up....they had been sitting and waiting for the past several years but they are being completed now.....

Good news, mang.

Good but not great.

Dave

Could be much better if the Tea Party was not dragging us down.

I thought that the left's position was that the stimulus worked?

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/...timulus-worked

Fixed that for ya, Michael. It is working despite the best efforts of your party members in the House and the Senate. I don't just blame the radical Tea Party wing of the Republican party, I find the obstinacy of your whole party repugnant and more than a little self serving.

Good luck with your "rapey" and anti worker party in the upcoming elections, bro. You're gonna need it.

+7% unemployment may be advantageous to your line of business but for the rest of us? Not so much.

LOL! Speaking of melt down. By the way, the grammar was correct before you "fixed" it. :p

Easily amused, eh Mike? :rolleyes: No comment about your HR biz benefiting from high unemployement? Why am I not surprised? Must be nice...

People frightened of unemployment during a slow moving economy are less apt to argue with management.

Is this not true?

You expect me to believe no one takes advantage of the situation?

Bullshit.

Dave

Positive signs around here are being noted.....

Stupid, uninformed comments like that require no response.:cool:

What does that have to do with HR, Dave? Especially businesses that have no HR dept?

Most HR folks I speak to are doing what they can to prepare for the anticipated labor shortage, by the way, including doing what they can to increase retention in positive ways (rather than the draconian scenario you described).

"Stupid", eh? I guess I'll just have to accept that as a compliment coming from the likes of you, Mike. Somebody piss in your cornflakes this morning?:confused:

What you do is incorrectly named.

This is H.R.

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