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Starbucks pastor-to-be shows shift in US job market

The case of a part-time Starbucks barista who is studying to be a pastor points to a US labour market in the early stages of a shift toward more full-time employment choices rather than just low-paying and part-time positions ...

Fewer airline jobs as US carriers trim ranks

Amid high fuel costs, US airlines employed the equivalent of 381,441 workers in June, down 2.4pc from the same month last year – marking the 10th straight month of decline compared with a year earlier – as American Airlines cut about 5,400 jobs, or 8.4pc of its workforce, although parent firm AMR Corp is back in black ...

American dream turns elusive in US white heartland

Indicating deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream, four out of five US adults – many of them white – struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, largely due to an increasingly globalised US economy, the widening gap between rich and poor, and the loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs ...

Job gains signal US doing better than GDP shows

Key US economic indicators – such as tax receipts, consumer confidence, as well as auto and home sales – are confirming the improvement in the labour market, but GDP seems to be overstating the weakness in output ...

US jobless claims rise modestly in latest week

In a sign the US labour market continues to improve at a moderate pace amid this year’s tax hikes and federal budget cuts, initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased by 7,000 to a seasonally adjusted 343,000 ...

Jobless rates down in 11 US states in June

Jobless rates rose from the previous month in 28 states, down in 11 states and unchanged in 11 states and the District of Columbia – a near reversal from May, when unemployment fell in 25 states and rose in 17 ...