Some analysts are looking hard for positive trends amid the U.S. Department of Labor’s latest unemployment report, and they’re hoping that one such indicator is the increase in temporary employment. As USA Today reporter Paul Davidson notes in his July 10 article, while U.S. employment figures essentially remained stagnant by adding only 80,000 new jobs [...]
Flag Day is one of our nation’s more enigmatic observances. While the resolution passed by the Second Continental Congress some 235 years ago on this day makes clear that the United State of America shall be represented by 13 alternating red and white stripes and a cluster of white stars on a blue fields, there [...]
The U.S. economy could not sustain the optimistic trend from last month’s job report, when the unemployment rate for people with disabilities dropped by nearly 3%. As Michelle Diament of Disability Scoop reported last Friday, 12.9% of Americans with disabilities were without jobs in the month of May, according the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; [...]
Kicking off the week is a wire story that will hopefully get picked up by media outlets looking to shine a light on employment opportunities for people disabilities. And by “wire story” I don’t only mean a release put out by PRWeb, but also a story about wires and what to do about them. The [...]
Buying American is starting to gain the same momentum that it had in the 1980s thanks to media focus on the issue from outlets like ABC and its “Made in America” series, plus “America Revealed” on PBS. A couple of recent stories by local media outlets are showing how people with disabilities in contract service [...]
Tuesday’s news that American manufacturing activity grew in April substantiates recent optimism that the U.S. economy is on the rebound, and fosters hope for an increase in jobs when the Department of Labor issues its monthly report this Friday. CNNMoney correspondent Annalyn Censky wrote that instead of the anticipated decrease in the Institute of Supply [...]
Yesterday’s reference to a Supply Chain Digital item from editor A. Selway Ryan was a true example of how a story on the Internet can lead you down a rabbit hole, looking for more information and discovering a Wonderland. It’s no surprise that a site dedicated to covering industry supply chains would be rich with [...]
It may be premature to dub Alabama the new China, but this Sunday news item from Supply Chain Digital editor A. Selway Ryan gives credence to the notion that U.S. companies are not the only ones eyeing the American labor force. In previous posts, we’ve noted that bringing outsourced manufacturing jobs back to America is [...]
House Representative Tim Bishop (D-NY) isn’t waiting around for his fellow legislators to deliberate on the U.S. Call Center and Consumer Protection Act (HR 3596) he introduced earlier this year. The Long Island congressman has gone on the offensive to stop call-center jobs from being moved overseas, and has already scored a victory for the [...]
Part of our regular coverage of the job market for people with disabilities are the reports from the U.S. Department of Labor. Now April brings the quarterly composite data, which reveals an unemployment rate that is 74% higher among this population set, according to a story by Kristin Samuelson of the Chicago Tribune. Fortunately, more [...]