Earlier This Month Home Links included were live and functioning at time of publication. It appears that the American economy is still growing, although modestly, but layoffs have been occurring at the fastest rate since the last recession of more than ten years ago, raising the unemployment rate by 0.2 percent for March.
Many more workers are likely to be losing their jobs during the months ahead , experts say.
Meanwhile, in France, strikes have resulted in free admission to some of Paris' top tourist attractions. It turns out that there weren't that many, but it wasn't entirely a mistake either, and, overall, trafficking in children is a reality. A Labor Department study examining relative pay levels of women working for the U.S. government is methodologically flawed, according to current Labor officials, so its results have not been released officially. The Department intends to conduct new research on the topic. It's convenient if all of your workers are interested in celebrating the same holidays, but in the new American economy, workers have become more diverse in nearly every way, including many of the holidays they're interested in.