Halliburton Cut 6,000 Jobs; Delays Earnings Call -- April 23, 2016; North Dakota Jobs

Link here; subject line pretty much says it all, I suppose.

Halliburton Co said on Friday that it cut more than 6,000 jobs in the first quarter, during which revenue slumped 40.4 percent and it took a $2.1 billion restructuring charge mainly for asset write-offs and severance costs.

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Meanwhile, The Job Picture In North Dakota Looks Pretty Rosy

From The Bismarck Tribune (numbers may be rounded):

State unemployment: 3.9%
National unemployment: 5%

Unemployment claims, most recent: 700/week (April)
Unemployment claims, four months ago: 1,600/week

Online job openings: 15,000 (up from 13,500 in December)
Online resumes: 11,000

Every sector looking for workers.

Resumes/openings:

• 1.7: construction and extraction (mining and oil)
• 1.6: office support job
• 1.3: production job (welders, machinists)
• 1.1: transportation (truck drivers)

And then these:

• 0.3: computer, IT, statisticians
• 0.3: architecture, engineering
• 0.2: education
• 0.1: agriculture
• 0.1: health care practitioners

In other words, for each on-line resume from a health care practitioner looking for a job, there were 10 on-line job openings.

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A Note for the Granddaughters

Suggested library for Brit Lit, the Wars of the Roses

• Shakespeare: Henry VI (Part I, II, and III) and Richard III
• Dan Jones: The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagentes and the Rise of the Tudors
• Dan Jones: The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
• Sarah Gristwood: Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
• Brenda James: The Truth Will Out
• Brenda James: Henry Neville and the Shakespeare Code 

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Summer

 Granddaughter #1 and her dad about 12 years ago. 
Today: at a national water polo tournament, Houston, TX (Rosenberg).