Unemployment Rate news from FierceCIO

The demand for H-1B visas has been accelerating. After a quiet year that ended on Sept. 30, 2009, when companies did not exhaust the number of available visas, the landscape has changed in just two Read more...

We report this week on some strong signals that the recession may be waning, and life could be back to normal quite soon, for the technology industry. The numbers were good on Wall Street last week, Read more...

People are discovering a new way to look for a job: Through social networking. Web 2.0 technologies have been emerging for a while, but with the growing unemployment rate, it is imperative to find Read more...

There's still plenty of gloom and doom news on the economy: The unemployment rate is close to 9 percent, and big tech companies, including Microsoft and Yahoo, are handing pink slips to many workers. Read more...

Yahoo is in a layoff mode and so is Microsoft. But a new poll of senior technology professionals found that more than 50 percent of those surveyed are currently hiring. The survey, conducted by Read more...

Since the economic slowdown began last autumn, there has been increasing controversy around H-1B visas--those temporary job visas that allow non-Americans to live and work in the United States, many Read more...

Just last Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Delta Air Lines announced that it has stopped using India-based call centers to handle sales and reservations. Delta is just the latest U.S. Read more...

The U.S. Senate, last Friday headed toward imposing restrictions on the hiring of H-1B workers by financial services firms that receive federal bailout funds, but the legislation fell short of what Read more...