layoffs

Job JOLTS - There are 4.25 Official Unemployed Per Job Opening in October 2011

JOLTS stands for Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. The October 2011 statistics show there were 4.25 official unemployed people hunting for a job to every position available*. There were 3,267,000 job openings for October 2011, a decrease of -3.38%, from the previous month of 3,377,000.

Job JOLTS - There are 4.17 Unemployed Per Job Opening in September 2011

JOLTS stands for Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. The September 2011 statistics show there were 4.17 official unemployed people hunting for a job to every position available. There were 3,354,000 job openings for September 2011, a increase of 7.19%, from the previous month of 3,129,000.

Job JOLTS - There are 4.57 Unemployed Per Job Opening in August 2011

JOLTS stands for Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. The August 2011 statistics show there were 4.57 official unemployed people hunting for a job to every position available. There were only 3,056,000 job openings for August 2011, a drop of 4.89%, from the previous month of 3,213,000. For the 37th month, JOLTS again reflects an absolutely horrific jobs market.

Job JOLTS - There are 4.32 Unemployed Per Job Opening in July 2011

JOLTS stands for Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. The July 2011 statistics show there were 4.32 official unemployed people hunting for a job to every position available. There were only 3,228,000 job openings for July 2011, almost the same, +1.86%, from the previous month of 3,169,000.

Job JOLTS - Job Openings for June 2011

JOLTS stands for Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. The June 2011 statistics show there were 4.53 official unemployed people hunting for a job to every position available. There were only 3,109,000 job openings for June 2011, almost the same, +2.47%, from the previous month of 3,034,000. The change is flat from last month, an absolutely horrific jobs market.

Layoffs at 11 Month High

Challenger, Gray & Christmas released their February 2011 layoff report which shows layoffs surged 32% in February to 50,702.

The 50,702 job cuts announced last month was up 32 percent from January’s 38,519. It was 20 percent higher than the 42,090 planned layoffs announced in February 2010. This marks the first year-over-year increase in monthly job cuts since May 2009 when job cuts totaling 111,182 surpassed the 103,522 layoffs announced the same month a year earlier by seven percent.

While Challenger, Gray & Christmas seem to be blaming high gas prices, the details in the layoffs paint a different picture:

The largest portion of layoffs last month came from government and non-profit employers, which announced 16,380 job cuts, up 154 percent from 6,450 in January and 196 percent higher than a year ago when 5,528 job cuts were announced in February. While most of the cuts occurred at the state and local level, the United States Postal Service announced that it reduced its headcount by 5,600 in recent months.

This is your government at work, with a 154% increase in government and non-profit layoffs. Government layoffs are directly attributable to the never ending state budget deficit malaise and the claims one must stiff Federal Workers in order to reduce them (which is false).

Retail sector layoffs increased 44% and we've seen a slowdown in consumer spending, with more money going to gas and food.

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