By Ed Beeson/The Star-Ledger Starting Saturday, more than 26,000 out-of-work New Jerseyans who have been searching for a job the longest will have a safety net yanked out from under them. The same prospect is looming for 100,000 more as federal unemployment benefits are due to expire by the end of the year. Because of a quirk in federal law and the state’s slowly improving employment picture, so-called extended benefits for New Jersey’s jobless will stop Saturday. These benefits cover people who have been out of work and collecting unemployment for between 79 weeks and 99 weeks. But ultimately, the  [ Read More ]

(Reuters) – Small businesses in June reported cuts to their staff for the first time this year, the National Federation of Independent Business said on Thursday in the latest sign the economy has lost a step. A survey by the NFIB of 740 small businesses found that the seasonally adjusted average change in employment per firm fell by 0.11 in the three months through June after being flat in the period through May. The reading has not been negative since December. “The figures suggest that job creation has been very weak,” said NFIB economist William Dunkelberg. The survey, which was  [ Read More ]

Originally Posted on Huffington Post By: Bonnie Kavoussi | bonnie.kavoussi@huffingtonpost.com Young people are getting left behind. High unemployment is hurting many young people as they languish without developing job skills. The United States added just 80,000 jobs in June, the Labor Department reported on Friday: This amount is less than half of what would be needed for the economy to recover in a timely fashion, according to economists. Older people are benefiting the most from the economic recovery, as they are snatching up a disproportionate share of the new jobs created, some economists say. Workers older than 55 have taken  [ Read More ]

By: Jacquelyn Smith, Forbes Staff With the employment picture finally perking up in some major metropolitan areas, job seekers might be tempted to limit their job search to the areas with the healthiest employment numbers. But low unemployment doesn’t always mean it’s the best place for finding a job. While cities with low unemployment might be the easiest areas for some to land a job, there may be little diversity in the industries hiring, the cost of living can be high, and the required skill sets can be too specific. The human resources firm Adecco Staffing U.S. looked at the  [ Read More ]