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It’s a Monday Mixer at DARTON GROUP!  Some of the things on our radar screen… The USA’s unemployment rate edged up to 9.8% in November.  The temporary help industry continues to add jobs. November’s gain in private-sector employment is the largest in 3 years. The Beige Book finds “moderate” economic growth in its Fifth District [...]

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) dated September 8, 2010. The DARTON team has reviewed the report and found the following highlights of interest.  When the recession began in December 2007, there were 1.8 unemployed persons per job opening.  In November 2009, the ratio rose [...]

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest jobs reports yesterday.  The USA unemployment rate dipped from 9.7 percent in May 2010 to 9.5 percent in June 2010.  It is being widely reported that the improvement is actually tied to more people opting out of the job seeking process (which is obviously troubling). It is interesting [...]

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So what is going on with the road to recovery for jobs? Last week the BLS reported that total nonfarm payrolls in the USA increased by 162,000 jobs while the unemployment rate remained constant at 9.7% for the 3rd month in a row. DARTON’s take? We continue to see positive news suggesting that the road [...]

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Last Friday, the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) http://www.bls.gov/ released its most recent survey results showing 2007 Occupational Pay Comparisons Among Metropolitan Areas.  Of course, the Darton Group team immediately leaped into the data specific to Charlotte and the finance profession.  So what did we learn? Let’s begin by defining the term “pay relatives“.  Pay relatives [...]

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