President Trump touted the strength of the economy on Friday, pointing to a GDP rate of 4.1% and record-low unemployment.
“I am thrilled to announce that, in the second quarter of this year, the United States economy grew at the …
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The U.S. economy added 213,000 jobs in June, details a jobs report that shows an economy that is growing at near-record levels.
Construction jobs added 13,000 jobs in the month, health care added 25,000 and professional and businesses services, leading …
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A Canadian real estate developer has won approval to build what would be the most expensive and largest mall ever built in the U.S. The mall, to be built in the Miami, FL, area would be a massive 6.2 million-square-foot …
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Seattle, WA, is the top destination for millennials according to the latest report by SmartAsset, a financial technology company that provides financial advice.
According to the study, nearly 30,000 millennials moved to city last year, while just over …
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The U.S. economy added 223,000 jobs in May, beating expectations and delivering a positive jobs report, indicating a bustling economy. The unemployment rate fell to 3.8%, the lowest it’s been since 2000.
Economists had been expecting an addition of …
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Vermont Governor Phil Scott has signed a bill into law that calls for the state to pay individuals to move there and telecommute to out-of-state work. The program, called the New Remote Worker Grant Program allocates $5,000 per worker per …
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America’s most in-demand job right now is data scientist, according to industry analysts. Job postings for the positions rose 75% from January 2015 to January of this year at online job board Indeed.com.
Average salaries are about $119,000 and …
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U.S. job openings now nearly match unemployed workers, according to Labor Department data and Bloomberg News.
The April jobs report showed that the U.S. economy added 164,000 jobs. Jobs figures for February were revised slightly downward but were revised …
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The U.S. economy added 164,000 jobs last month in a positive jobs report that indicated the country’s near-record expansion is continuing unabated. Economists were expecting an increase of about 193,000 jobs, but revisions to job figures for February (slightly downward), …
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The current United States economic expansion is the second longest in the nation’s history. The streak became the second-longest on record days before the Federal Reserve Bank is set to decide, in a two-day meeting, whether to increase interest rates …
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In a sign of the times, several towns across the nation are offering new incentives to people who move there to live and work, the result of a trend going on for years that saw young professionals leaving small towns …
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Tens of millions of square feet of retail space has gone dark this year but now retailers are facing another crisis: too few salespeople.
Many of the nation’s biggest store-chains have been cutting staff at an even faster pace than …
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Twenty North American cities are competing to land the next headquarters for online-retail giant Amazon.com. Reports are that the company has now narrowed the list down to a handful of cities.
The site that’s picked is expected to …
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A new study by the right-leaning Center for Immigration Studies found that the education levels for new immigrants has increased dramatically in the last decade, but employment and income have not kept pace by nearly as much.
The study found …
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The amount of retail space slated to close in 2018 is on pace to be an all-time record according to commercial real estate services firm CoStar Group. As of April the number of square feet of that has gone dark …
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What would you do for a 10% raise?
A recent LendEDU survey revealed that nearly 35% of respondents would give up their voting rights for life in order to get a 10% pay increase. LendEDU, an online student loan marketplace, …
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General Motors has announced that it will lay off close to 1,500 workers from a plant in Ohio. The move is due to market shifts in consumer demands from compact cars to SUV’s and pickup trucks. The shift is attributable …
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