Kate Middleton, 36, is the wife of Prince William, also 36. She is also the Duchess of Cambridge and has three children, Prince George, five, Princess Charlotte, three, and Prince Louis who is only a few months old. Kate met Prince William when they were both at At Andrew’s in Scotland. They married in September […]
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Say Hello to Full Employment
This morning, the Labor Department announced that the national unemployment rate ticked up to 4 percent in June for good reasons, as hundreds of thousands more Americans sought work. For the first time in recorded history, the number of job openings is higher than the number of people looking for a job. That has raised […]
Pound to euro exchange rate: Sterling ‘hits a low’ ahead of UK employment figures
The pound to euro has fallen in favour of the European currency today, Tuesday 12 June. Pound sterling is converting to €1.1351 according to Bloomberg figures correct at 7:20am this morning. This compared to yesterday when it converted to the higher value of €1.136. Laura Parsons, currency analyst at TorFX, told Express.co.uk negative employment data […]
Pound to euro exchange rate: Sterling ‘edges HIGHER’ amid record high UK employment levels
The pound to euro exchange rate has fallen in favour of the sterling currency today, Wednesday 16 May. Pound sterling is converting to €1.1418 according to Bloomberg figures correct at 7:20am this morning. This compares to yesterday, when it stood at the lower value of €1.1355. The day before, on Monday, it converted to the […]
The US might not be as close to full employment as we think
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images While the unemployment rate is very low, other measures of the labor force suggest the economy is not at full employment. A full employment economy would suggest stronger wage growth than we’ve seen recently. In the mainstream media, I often hear that we are near full employment and wages are starting to […]
Pound to euro exchange rate: Sterling to ‘extend GAINS’ with positive UK employment figure
The pound is up against the euro, according to figures correct at 7:15am this morning. Sterling now converts to €1.1341 against the euro, a slight increase compared to yesterday. Yesterday morning the pound was trading at €1.133 against the euro, after dropping from the previous day’s figures of €1.137. The slight rise comes despite yesterday’s […]
Hurricanes Irma and Harvey Spur the First Employment Decline in 7 Years
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the U.S. labor market shed 33,000 jobs in September—the first decline in the total number of paid positions in the economy in seven years. The unemployment rate, however, fell to 4.2 percent from 4.4 percent. (The unemployment rate doesn’t directly measure job loss, rather reflects the […]
Tory govt must refund millions to workers as employment tribunal fees ruled ‘unlawful’
Published time: 26 Jul, 2017 13:18 The government must pay back millions of pounds in employment tribunal fees after the Supreme Court ruled the charges introduced by former Prime Minister David Cameron are “unlawful and unconstitutional.” Wednesday’s “landmark” decision marked a victory for the public sector trade union Unison, which had waged a four-year legal […]
Pound to euro exchange rate – sterling RECOVERS as UK exports and employment SOAR
The exchange rate has climbed to €1.128, up from a low of €1.118 just yesterday. Sterling dived to its lowest level against the euro since November 2016 after comments from the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (BoE). Ben Broadbent told the Press and Journal there are too many “imponderables” in the British economy […]
Full Employment: Are We There Yet?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ April jobs report showed that for just about a year straight, unemployment has remained under 5 percent. That’s laudable, considering the fact that unemployment surpassed 10 percent during the height of the recession. Now, some are saying the streak of low unemployment means that the country has reached a big […]