U.S. companies' planned layoffs jumped 68 percent in April from the prior month to the highest since September 2006, pointing to further deterioration in the labor market, a report showed on Thursday. Full Story »
Posted by Dale Penn
This wire story, reprinted by RawStory shares the results of a report by an employment consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. There is no information on the firm to explain why its report is cited, nor information from other reports. I suspect this might be a rewrite of a pr release. It does add one more piece to the picture, if the reader is looking at other items.
