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Thursday January 12, 2012

Some Good News on the Jobs Front

by John Dorrer
The latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) brought some good news to start the New Year: There were 200,000 new payroll jobs and unemployment continued to trend downward at 8.5% in December 2011. BLS reported that, from June 2010 to June 2011, employment increased in 215 of the 322 largest U.S. counties....

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Friday December 9, 2011

Colleges Want More Real-time Labor Info

by John Dorrer
Since our recent announcement of the Credentials that Work (CTW) project along with the release of our report, Aligning Community Colleges to Their Local Labor Market: The Emerging Role of Online Job Ads for Providing Real Time Intelligence about Occupations and Skills in Demand, we have received a large volume of inquiries from community colleges...

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