CHICAGO, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. retailers' holiday hiring will be its lowest since 2001, when the Sept. 11 terror-attack aftermath muted sales, an outplacement firm said Monday.

CHICAGO, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. job cuts jumped 85 percent to nearly 80,000 in August, with almost half the cuts coming from the financial sector, an outplacement firm said Wednesday.

CHICAGO, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. housing-market woes are to blame for more about 21,000 job cuts this month and more than 11,000 since Friday, an outplacement consulting firm said Tuesday.

CHICAGO, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Credit market woes will exacerbate U.S. job cuts this fall if the housing market collapse hurts other economic segments, a consulting firm said Monday.

CHICAGO, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Up to a quarter of employees say they regret taking a new position within the first year of being hired, an outplacement consultant says.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. job cuts fell 23 percent to a 12-month low in July, the second consecutive monthly decline, an outplacement consulting firm report said Wednesday.

CHICAGO, July 23 (UPI) -- Up to 25 percent of workers regret having taken a new position within a year of their first paycheck, a U.S. outplacement consulting firm estimated Monday.

CHICAGO, July 16 (UPI) -- U.S. job seekers found positions an average 17 percent faster in the second quarter than in the first, an outplacement consulting firm said Monday.

CHICAGO, June 5 (UPI) -- Liberal arts degrees may help college graduates land jobs better than business, engineering and high-tech degrees, a U.S. outplacement firm said Tuesday.