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Home Depot to Hire 70,000 for Spring Boom

Global home improvement retailing giant Home Depot (NYSE:HD) on Thursday announced it has begun recruiting for 70,000 seasonal positions to help with the 2012 spring rush. And best of all, for job seekers, it could lead to something more permanent. Tim Crow, executive vice president for human resources, said in a release,

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And the overall unemployment rate fell to 8.3% in the month

The U.S. labor market just got a strong report card for January 2012. The Labor Department said today that nonfarm employment rose by a surprisingly robust 243,000 during the month, and the overall unemployment rate slid to 8.3%. Both headline figures were much better than consensus estimates. And the jobless rate drop is the fifth [...]

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Gradual economic improvements will make themselves heard

Our economy is a bit like a person on a diet. He loses weight a little bit at a time, and when you him them every day, you hardly notice the gradual change. But if you don