The economy added only 80,000 new jobs to the nation’s nonfarm payrolls in June, according to the Labor Department. Many economists were expecting stronger growth in the jobs market, especially following ADP’s jobs report on Thursday that said private businesses added 176,000 new jobs in June. The Labor Department’s calculation is frequently at odds with ADP’s assessment and can be adjusted in a later report. The unemployment rate remained at 8.2% in June…. Read more: A modest proposal
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2012 mid-year outlook: Looking past the cliff–Part 1
New Medicare tax creates incentive for home sales
The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) will affect everyone in the United States one way or another. But some people will be affected more than others. Among these are high income taxpayers. Starting in 2013, they will be subject to a brand new Medicare tax on their “unearned income.” …Continue Article HERE
Summer vacation for job creation
June nonfarm payrolls expanded by 80,000 and the unemployment rate held steady at 8.2%. There are still 12.7 million people classified as unemployed, with 41.9% of them being unemployed 27 weeks or longer. In the first quarter of 2012, the average payroll gain was 226,000 per month. The second quarter averaged a mere 75,000 per month. It seems as though job creation has effectively taken the early summer off.
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Get rid of your big “BUT”
There comes a time in every reinvention–like running a marathon–when you feel you just can’t go on. You want to keep moving towards the finish line, but every step feels like slogging through waist-deep mud.
You’ve hit the wall, as long-distance runners say, and to get through that moment you must assess what’s weighing you down.
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