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  Modi govt on employment: Agnipath scheme, 10 lakh jobs in 18 months | Everything about big jobs push

  India | June 15, 2022 21:57 IST

  Total number of regular central government civilian employees in position (including in the Union territories) as on March 1, 2020 was 31.91 lakh as against the sanctioned strength of 40.78 lakh and approximately 21.75 per cent of the posts were vacant.

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  'Factually incorrect': Centre rubbishes reports of Indians losing hope for work

  India | April 27, 2022 7:41 IST

  Several media reports claimed that millions of discouraged Indians, especially women, have stopped looking for jobs over slim opportunities in the past five years and are quitting the labour force entirely.

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  US adds 136,000 jobs; unemployment hits 50-year low of 3.5 per cent

  World | October 04, 2019 19:04 IST

  Despite the ultra-low unemployment rate, which dropped from 3.7% in August, average hourly wages slipped by a penny, the Labor Department said Friday in its monthly jobs report. Hourly pay rose just 2.9% from a year earlier, below the 3.4% year-over-year gain at the beginning of the year.

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  Employment gap between rich, poor widest on record

  September 17, 2013 12:23 IST

  WASHINGTON: The gap in employment rates between America's highest- and lowest-income families has stretched to its widest levels since officials began tracking the data a decade ago, according to an analysis of government data conducted