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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Employment

News                                                                                                                             
CNN Money | Private sector hiring just muddles along
The ADP jobs report may be the only significant jobs number released this week, and the main takeaway from it is more of the same: lackluster job growth.
CNBC | Shutdown may idle non-federal workers next week
The federal government shutdown is already affecting contractors and threatens to dampen private-sector employment, at least in the near-term, industry officials say.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
WSJ | Which Government Workers Are Affected by Shutdown?
More than 800,000 of the U.S. government’s civilian workers faced furloughs after the government shut down Tuesday. Some agencies, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are seeing all but a handful of their employees go home without pay.