Job alert - - Jobless rate, work force dip in Triangle

Jobless rate, work force dip in Triangle
Port Arthur News - The unemployment rate in the Golden Triangle has improved over last month and last year, but fewer workers are holding fewer jobs. The April unemployment rate was 6.3 percent for the Beaumont-Port Arthur statistical area that includes Jefferson

Payroll Growth Stalls with 75,000 New Jobs
WTLV - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Job growth faltered in May, with employers boosting payrolls by just 75,000. Yet the nation's unemployment rate dipped to 4.6 percent, the lowest since the summer of 2001. The latest snapshot, released by the Labor Department on

Print-toner plant plans will add 21 Salem jobs
Statesman Journal - A Japan-based manufacturer of toner for printer cartridges intends to scale up its Salem plant and double its local work force. IMEX America plans a $5 million plant expansion at Fairview Industrial Park that will bring 21 jobs to the area, company

Arkansas' loss of furniture jobs is Michigan's gain
WOOD - FORT SMITH, Ark. Furniture manufacturer Flanders Industries is closing the Arkansas factory it's operated since 1970. About 40 jobs will be lost. The company will consolidate its furniture manufacturing and distribution at a plant in Menominee, in

Finding Summer Jobs
WTNH.com - To give yourself the best chance for jobs in private industry, start looking in the late winter or early spring. Large businesses usually have personnel offices that will take your application early. Check back with them regularly on your job