2015 Job Layoffs Up 31% Year Over Year in August

Job layoffs in August were a notable improvement from July. However, the 2015 year-to-date total is up 31% from the same period a year ago. Retail and oil have been hit particularly hard. Keep reading to find out where the steepest job cuts came from last month... Tags: employment report , Job Cuts , job layoffs , jobs data , jobs report , Layoffs , U.S. Unemployment , unemployment report To get full access to all Money Morning content, click here About Money Morning: Money Morning gives you access to a team of ten market experts with more than 250 years of combined investing experience – for free . Our experts – who have appeared on FOXBusiness, CNBC, NPR, and BloombergTV – deliver daily investing tips and stock picks, provide analysis with actions to take, and answer your biggest market questions. Our goal is to help our millions of e-newsletter subscribers and Moneymorning.com visitors become smarter, more confident investors. Disclaimer: © 2015 Money Morning and Money Map Press. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright of the United States and international treaties. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including the world wide web), of content from this webpage, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Money Morning. 16 W. Madison St. Baltimore, MD, 21201. The post 2015 Job Layoffs Up 31% Year Over Year in August appeared first on Money Morning - We Make Investing Profitable .