U.S. Monster Employment Index

Monster.com ^ | 5/1/08 | Kathryn Burns

[Redmen4ever]

The Monster Employment Index added seven points in April, as online job availability in the U.S. continued to rise moderately for the third consecutive.

[Redmen4ever]

This index of on-line job listings touched bottom in January at 160. It has now registered three consecutive increases and has risen back up to 174.

While business and consumer confidence are very low, we are now seeing real activity numbers that the economy has found its footing and may be posed to resume a healthy growth rate.

[Sacajaweau]

Why does the world think that everyone WANTS to work....full time?

I know many people who opt for part time, at home, "busy" work.

[L,TOWM]

Get ready for the attack of the “Prophets of Doom” on this board. Any positive news is an anomaly in our decline into the great depression (part deaux) when gold, food, and guns will be the only things worth having. Or something like that.

[11th Commandment]

I'm not sure the economic situation we are in has been about jobs primarily because the economy has created jobs at the rate needed. The pundits who said we needed hundred's of thousands of jobs every month forgot that thousands of people are retiring every day and aging households do not need two income earners.

This economy is about inflation and the value of the dollar. Post Reagan conservatism (you know, the movement that has died) has failed to support the free market to support the flow of commodities. As such the true inflation has hit America for the first time in 30 years.

[ritewingwarrior]

Why would people want to work all the time, it might disqualify them for government aid.

[Proverbs 3-5]

Why would people want to work all the time, it might disqualify them for government aid.

This weekend I was up in WVA for my Mother-in-laws 91st birthday and my wife asked her nephew who is living with his girlfriend if they were going to get married. His reply was no because she'd lose $400/mo in disability. I guess she once had a bad day and saw a shrink. Never mind the fact that he works for the VA and has insurance!!

it really irks me because i was born with multiple physical handicaps and i put myself through High Schrewl and college by mowing lawns (with a push mower).

[Califreak]

Monster.com?

Snort!

[Andonius_99]

Who the hell is employing monsters??? I wanna work there!

[Homer1]

I agree. In my opinion, the biggest restriction on growth, right now, is the availibility of skilled labor which is becoming more and more difficult to find.

[stylin19a]

and i put myself through High Schrewl and college by mowing lawns (with a push mower).

uphill...both ways...

[Proverbs 3-5]

It sure felt like it some days!!

:)

[Redmen4ever]

You make a most interesting comment. Unless we get a collapse of the banking system, which the Federal Reserve allowed to happen in the 1930s, slowdowns and mild recessions are usually the result of overhangs of supply here that we have to work off in some places, along with excess demands in some other places, which imbalances cannot be worked through instanteously. This would correspond to simultaneously seeing an uptick in unemployment and in job listings.