The demographics are changing among truck drivers, and the number of semi-truck drivers in the United States is at a record high, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Immigrants from western and northern India are drawn to the trucking industry. Many of the immigrants follow Sikhism and arrived in America in the 1980s, fleeing ethnic […]
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Hiring in the U.S. increased in November 2019 to the highest rate since January of the same year and wages increased over three percent. Employers paid no attention to trade conflicts and a worldwide slowdown and added 266,000 positions. In October, the unemployment rate dropped from 3.6 percent to 3.5 percent, matching a 50-year low,
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The economic benefits tech jobs bring are being concentrated in several cities in the United States, said a report by The Brookings Institution and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Boston, San Jose, San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle are the five metro areas accounting for 90 percent of all growth in the tech sector.
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According to one economist, January 2020 is showing a strong start to the year, and one more sign the expansion has continued to pull employees into the workforce Not only is the participation in the labor force on the rise, but there is a pickup in employment. This is a sign that the job market
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A growing number of US economists have been bullish about increases in 2020 The National Association for Business Economics reported that well over half expected the US gross domestic product (GDP) to increase by 1.1 percent to two percent. A growing number even expected higher increases of up to three percent. The US, Canada, and
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After years of lobbying by labor groups, several states and cities in the US have raised the minimum wage. Labor groups like the Fight for $15, began fighting for increased wages in 2012 and received much criticism. Spiraling housing costs and widening income inequality are now putting pressure on lawmakers to pass the higher minimum
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Even with a slight slowing, employers in the United States added 145,000 jobs in December. The unemployment rate remained steady at 3.5 percent, indicating the job market is holding strong at the start of 2020. The statistics of a steadily improving economy, along with low inflation, will give the Federal Reserve an excellent outlook about
U.S. News released a report about the top 100 job careers in the United States in 2020. Out of the top ten, seven are in the health/medical field. These positions, ranging from a dentist to a veterinarian, require a master’s degree or a doctorate, and the median salaries are from $94,000 to $208,000. The number
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Canada’s unemployment rate has dropped again to close to a forty-year low as the economy added more positions than expected by analysts. The monthly labor force survey from Statistics Canada reported the country added close to 54,000 new positions in September, and most of the jobs were full-time. These numbers caused the unemployment rate in
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Utah is one of the top states where the middle class enjoy a high standard of living in America, as seen by the impressive homeownership rate of 70.5 percent. There are parts of the US where the middle class is thriving and other regions, not so much. States such as Ohio (ranked 13th) and Wisconsin
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