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December Jobs Report Highlights Need for Skilled Employees: Positive report masks distressing situation for low-skill employees
January 2005 · ·
Washington – Today’s jobs report closes out a positive year for the labor market with 157,000 jobs created during December and 2.2 million jobs created for the year, marking the best year for job creation in 5 years. While the overall job picture continues to improve, the nation’s lowest skilled employees are still facing a difficult job market. Both the monthly and the annual figures clearly demonstrate… -
No Override: Hiking New York’s Minimum Wage Will Trigger Unintended Consequences: High School Dropouts and African-Americans
December 2004 · ·
Albany – Governor Pataki’s veto of the minimum wage should stand, said the Employment Policies Institute today as the New York Senate reconvenes to consider an override of the governor’s veto. Raising the minimum wage would trigger unintended consequences that would directly and negatively affect the very low-income employees legislators believe they are helping. Decades of research reveal that raising the minimum wage creates employment loss targeted… -
No Override: Hiking New York’s Minimum Wage Will Trigger Unintended Consequences: High School Dropouts and African-Americans
December 2004 · ·
Albany – Governor Pataki’s veto of the minimum wage should stand, said the Employment Policies Institute today as the New York Senate reconvenes to consider an override of the governor’s veto. Raising the minimum wage would trigger unintended consequences that would directly and negatively affect the very low-income employees legislators believe they are helping. Decades of research reveal that raising the minimum wage creates employment loss targeted… -
Low-Skill Employees Still Suffering Difficult Labor Market: High School dropouts face exceptionally high unemployment rate
December 2004 · ·
Washington – Today’s recent jobs report finds weaker than expected numbers for the nation as a whole. The report is disturbing, particularly considering the crisis in unemployment facing low-skill employees the Employment Policies Institute noted today. Groups such as teenagers, high-school dropouts, and minorities continue to face crippling unemployment rates. In November, the national unemployment rate fell to 5.4%. High school dropouts, however, faced an unemployment rate… -
Low-Skill Employees Still Suffering Difficult Labor Market: High School dropouts face exceptionally high unemployment rate
December 2004 · ·
Washington – Today’s recent jobs report finds weaker than expected numbers for the nation as a whole. The report is disturbing, particularly considering the crisis in unemployment facing low-skill employees the Employment Policies Institute noted today. Groups such as teenagers, high-school dropouts, and minorities continue to face crippling unemployment rates. In November, the national unemployment rate fell to 5.4%. High school dropouts, however, faced an unemployment rate… -
Bad Jobs News for Black and Hispanic Teens In October Unemployment Figures: Lawmakers Should Reject Job Destroying Wage Increases
November 2004 · ·
Washington – While the nation enjoyed exceptionally strong job growth in the month of October, creating 337,000 new jobs, the nation’s least-skilled employees continue to suffer from high unemployment rates. October’s job report should be particularly sobering to voters in Florida and Nevada who recently passed increases in their state minimum wages. These hikes will only serve to make the employment situation for low-skill employees that much…