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%In other words, for each on-line resume from a health care practitioner looking for a job, there were 10 on-line job openings.
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:
And then these:
- 1.7: construction and extraction (mining and oil)
- 1.6: office support job
- 1.3: production job (welders, machinists)
- 1.1: transportation (truck drivers)
- 0.3: computer, IT, statisticians
- 0.3: architecture, engineering
- 0.2: education
- 0.1: agriculture
- 0.1: health care practitioners
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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).
Today: at a national water polo tournament, Houston, TX (Rosenberg).