May Jobs Report, Walmart Activism, Sallie Krawcheck On Getting Fired And More

June 7, 2013 Subscribe · Forward 175,000 JOBS The U.S. economy continued to churn out low-paying jobs in June, as the weakest labor-market recovery since World War II ground sluggishly ahead. Employers added 175,000 jobs to nonfarm payrolls in May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday, up from a downwardly revised 149,000 in April. The unemployment rate rose a tick, to 7.6 percent from 7.5 percent.  Continue reading... 'Walmart Will Never Be The Same' Sallie Krawcheck: 'I Got Grateful When I Got Fired' U.S. Suffers Largest Pay Drop On Record Kind Gesture May Have Cost This Woman $590 Million $590 Million Powerball Winner Announced Cheerios Stands By Ad Featuring Mixed Race Family Walmart U.S. CEO To Workers: 'There Are No More Free Shots At You' J.C. Penney CEO On Recovery: 'There's No Single Date That Is Magic' Ben & Jerry's To Drop Controversial Ingredient Kind Gesture May Have Cost This Woman $590 Million 175,000 JOBS JARED BERNSTEIN Jobs Day: First Impressions -- High Stakes Musical Chairs What we have here is a high stakes game of musical chairs, as payrolls grow at a steady, if not-that-impressive, clip, essentially adding chairs to the game. Meanwhile, more players are coming off the sidelines, looking for places to sit. Continue reading... ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER Do You See the World As a Ladder or a Web? The ability to operate effectively in a horizontal web of relationships (a network of networks) is more important than ever. So why is it that the metric of success is still "getting to the top"? Continue reading... SEN. ROBERT MENENDEZ A Cry for Worker Fairness The tragedy at the Rana Plaza clothing factory was a sober reminder that Bangladeshi garment workers still lack basic rights and protections. My mother was a seamstress. She worked in the textile factories of northern New Jersey. I saw how hard and tiring her work was. But it was never lethal. And it shouldn't be. Continue reading... ELISSA ELLIS SANGSTER Missing in the Lean In Debate? The MBA Gender Gap While Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and her critics argue over who's to blame for the glass ceiling -- women or society -- one potential equalizer getting short shrift in the conversation is education, in particular an MBA. Continue reading... LINDA MERIC Stop the Blame Game: We Can Create an Economy That Works for All While some naysayers including politicians and television personalities want to blame working mothers for the state of our nation, it's really the state of our nation that's to blame for these issues facing working mothers. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003