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Labor Availability Job One Of DC Site Selection
Friday, February 8, 2019 - 12:30pm | 1279Read More...Soaring warehouse employment since 2012 (Image: SONAR) In 2013, Tim Mark, head of warehouse operations at WaytekWire, an electric parts distributor in Minneapolis, had a problem that today has become all too commonplace – finding a reliable labor pool to handle orders from his company...
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Stocks Higher, But Dollar Indecisive After Retail Sales Release
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 5:26pm | 435Read More...The U.S. dollar was pressured lower on Friday, after U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a gain of 74,000 nonfarm jobs, the smallest increase in three years. Analysts had expected an incease of 196,000. A decline in labor force participation cast a shadow on news that the December U.S....
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Atlanta Fed Tackles Falling Labor Force Participation
Monday, August 6, 2012 - 2:23pm | 508Read More...Since the late 1990s, the labor force participation rate has been steadily declining. However, since 2008, this rate of decline has accelerated. The Atlanta Fed published a drat paper on Monday analyzing these trends and trying to discover the root causes of the decline in the labor force...
