The Maddow Blog – A stroll down memory lane
maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com – After Friday’s discouraging jobs report, there was increasing talk on the right about the benefits of George W. Bush’s record, as if the nation would be better off turning back the clock to 2008. A…
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Classes of 2001 vs. 1999: What a Difference Two Years Makes – Real Time Economics – WSJ
blogs.wsj.com – Younger workers have had a harder time in the rough U.S. job market, but even a couple of years can make a big difference. For example, the seniors in the Class of 1999 were better off in their 20s…
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A global recession: How did we get here?
marketplace.org – Kai Ryssdal: An interesting thing happened on the way to the opening bell on Wall Street this morning. Nothing. Not panic selling. Not the Dow off 300 points. Not, nuthin’. Which, if you remember w…
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Unemployment Increase Worse for Blacks
blogs.the-american-interest.com – Last Friday’s unemployment news crashed the stock market and upended the presidential race. Lost in the excitement, however, was the news that African-American unemployment, already significantly a…
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Speaker Boehner Statement on May Unemployment Report
speaker.gov – “While Senate Democrats are blocking these and other important jobs bills, and President Obama is occupied campaigning, the House will continue to focus on liberating job creators and building a st…
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Employers: Qualified Workers Aren’t In Jobs Pool : NPR
npr.org – Copyright © 2012 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. From jobseekers in Spain, we turn to those here in the U….
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Total Institutions, Productivity, and Unemployment – Bob Sutton
bobsutton.typepad.com – This isn’t an original idea, but it has been gnawing at me lately. As we all know, unemployment in the U.S. remains frighteningly high — and is in worse in many parts of Europe. We still haven’t…
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Threat Of Devastating Collapse Remains As Long As US Doesn’t Address Structural Unemployment – Business Insider
businessinsider.com – Daniel Alpert is a founding Managing Director of Westwood Capital, an investment bank and advisory firm. In the second quarters of three successive calendar years—2010, 2011 and 2012—improvements i…
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AIG Chief Sees Retirement Age as High as 80 After Crisis – Bloomberg
bloomberg.com – You need to enable Javascript to play media on Bloomberg.com American International Group Inc. (AIG) Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche said Europe’s debt crisis shows governments worldwide m…
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Employment News, Consumer Tips and Job Advice – Life Inc. | TODAY.com Blogs – Unemployment data highlights growing educational divide
lifeinc.today.msnbc.msn.com – If you want to get a job in this economy, it’s becoming increasingly clear that you better also be thinking about getting an education beyond just a high school degree. The government reported Frid…
Behind the Numbers: Slow Job Growth is a Problem; Long-term Unemployment is a Crisis | Business
business.time.com – Any way you slice it, Friday’s jobs numbers were a huge disappointment. Forecasters were expecting 150,000 jobs added, and even that figure would have represented mediocre job growth. But the actua…
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15 top MBA employers – 1. Google (1) – CNNMoney
money.cnn.com – The opportunity to “do cool things that matter” keeps drawing MBA students to Google. The Internet giant tops the list for the sixth year running. Google sets the bar when it comes to lavish compan…
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How recent grads can land jobs – Fortune Management
management.fortune.cnn.com – FORTUNE — Millions of graduates are pouring out of U.S. campuses and flooding the job market this spring. Students have sprung from vocational centers, nearby community colleges, small liberal art…
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Number of the Week: Most Unemployed Have College Experience – Real Time Economics – WSJ
blogs.wsj.com – 52%: Percent of the unemployed who have spent at least some time in college. In a significant shift in the labor market, the majority of people who are unemployed have some college education, rever…
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Global slump alert as world money contracts – Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk – The Americans may act first. Goldman Sachs expects Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke to open the door for QE in testimony on Thursday. Stock markets rallied in Madrid and Milan led by bank shares …
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G7 to hold emergency eurozone talks, Spain top concern – RTÉ News
rte.ie – Government officials in Germany are reported to have said that Ireland’s bail-out terms are to remain in place. The officials believe that if Ireland’s bank rescue arrangements were re-opened, it w…
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DragonWave cutting 26% of workers in restructuring – MarketWatch
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Unemployment | The Black Community
workreply.com – Employers pulled back on hiring in April for the second straight month. The unemployment rate dipped, not because more people are finding employment, but because more people have given up looking f…
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CBO | Understanding and Responding to Persistently High Unemployment
cbo.gov – The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, and CBO projects that it will remain above 8 percent until 2014. In analysis of a number of tax and spendin…
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Youth Unemployment: 75 million out of work and crisis to continue until 2016 warns ILO | eGov monitor
egovmonitor.com – Global youth unemployment has hit nearly 75 million, and this will remain persistently high until at least 2016, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has warned in a report. In its annual re…
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Retirement: Financial security for the long road ahead – Jun. 4, 2012
money.cnn.com – The best reason to rethink retirement, says psychologist Laura Carstensen, is that we’ll be spending many more years in it and need financial security for the long run. (MONEY Magazine) — When Soc…
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PolitiFact New Jersey | Caroline Casagrande says women have come through recession worse off than men
politifact.com – The recession and its aftereffects have been hard on millions of people across the country. But it’s been especially hard on women, according to state Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande (R-Monmouth)…
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Best Employers For Workers Over 50
huffingtonpost.com – The dismal May employment report released last week was bad news for all, but especially for workers 55 and over, who have been hardest-hit by long-term unemployment. But there are some companies d…
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Nurses challenge Health Minister’s claims brain drain
ghanamma.com – The Ghana Registered Nurses Association is challenging claims by Health Minister, Alban Bagbin that brain drain in the health sector has reduced. The minister, speaking at the 15th anniversary of t…
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No degree? No problem!
philly.com – Let’s face it: College isn’t for everyone. Fortunately, it’s still possible to land a good job with a promising earning potential without a bachelor’s. San Diego career coach Judy Kaplan says indiv…
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The Job Stall
wallstreetpit.com – The White House must be telling itself there are still five months between now and Election Day, so the jobs picture could brighten. After all, we went through a similar mid-year slump in 2011 but …
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Toronto News: Why Chinese immigrants struggle with English fluency – thestar.com
thestar.com – Mandarin-speaking Zhenyong Li, who came to Canada in 1998, said he finds small talk in English more difficult than his engineering jargon. Zhenyong Li has no trouble speaking English in his enginee…
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Germany’s skilled worker shortage is growing | Germany | DW.DE
dw.de – When unemployment is high, apprehension builds each month ahead of the report by Germany’s Federal Employment Agency. But that has not been a problem in recent years. As the unemployment rate has d…
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10 job search mistakes of new grads » The Commercial Appeal
commercialappeal.com – Although this year’s college graduates are facing a tough job market, they have an advantage over other job seekers, according to Andy Chan, vice president of career development at Wake Forest Univ…
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Layoffs to Begin Monday at RG Steel – WKBN – 27 First News – Local News – Youngstown, Warren, Columbiana, Ohio – Sharon, Pennsylvania
wkbn.com – Layoffs begin Monday for workers at RG Steel in Warren after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week in Delaware. Add your perspective to any issue by leaving comments on t…
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‘Decent work’ in Indonesia: What do the indicators say?
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News in brief – June 4, 2012 – amednews.com
ama-assn.org – Fewer people lost jobs in mass layoffs at hospitals in April than in prior months, according to a report released May 22 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Mass layoffs are defined as at least 50 p…
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Tragedy of layoffs
koreatimes.co.kr – Dropouts from job market need better social care It was a casual yet noteworthy event. Michael Sandel, the Harvard political theorist famous here for his book “Justice,” visited a scene symbolizin…
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IT Skills: Jumping the Chasm – Computerworld
computerworld.com – Computerworld – Call it the tech industry’s version of a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: Businesses have job openings, but IT professionals are struggling to land jobs or move to bett…
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The Skills Gap Myth: Why Companies Can’t Find Good People | Business
business.time.com – Last week’s disappointing unemployment report has refocused attention on the question of why, despite modest signs of economic recovery in recent months, American companies aren’t hiring. Indeed, s…
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Changes to EI leave the job unfinished – The Globe and Mail
theglobeandmail.com – The federal government has undertaken the biggest overhaul of employment insurance in two decades but has done almost nothing to address the big structural problems at the core of the system. David…
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Why the U.S. economy is stuck in the slow lane – USATODAY.com
usatoday.com – The recession officially ended three years ago, but the ‘recovery’ has been a frustrating mix of good and bad news. The oil options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange on Thursday. Oil prices h…
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Barack Obama’s bad economic ideas—Charles Gasparino – NYPOST.com
nypost.com – President Obama greeted last week’s rotten news on unemployment by saying the economy is facing “serious headwinds.” It took him three-plus years to figure that out? Last Friday’s crummy jobs repor…
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Crisis in Greece hits mental health
mole.my – One in four men, and one in three women, has endured recent bouts of depression. As the grinding economic crisis continues to batter people’s nerves, suicides and psychosomatic illness are both on …
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I Lost My Job | Watch Free Documentary Online
topdocumentaryfilms.com – I Lost My Job is a documentary film which sets out to explore the phenomenon which is affecting and due to affect many people’s lives – namely, technological unemployment. The documentary also exam…
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5 Leadership Behaviors Loyal Employees Trust – Forbes
forbes.com – Is any relationship ever completely reciprocal? Not really, because one party always wields more power over the other. This is a human behavior dynamic that is tough to ignore, especially when we l…
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Breaking the negative feedback loop
blogs.reuters.com – With the past week’s dismal U.S. jobs data, signs of increasing financial strain in Europe, and discouraging news from China, the proposition that the global economy is returning to a path of healt…
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Job market toughens as grads begin seeking | jobs, job, percent – News – The Orange County Register
ocregister.com – For a class of graduating seniors that has had the economic downturn weighing on them since they started college, the latest U.S. jobs numbers are simply a reminder they must position themselves as…
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The Not So Golden Years, Revisited
ritholtz.com – Over the years, debate has waxed and waned over the effects of the minimum wage and/or immigration policy on employment, particularly teen/youth employment. When the issue flared up most recently, …
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Jobless benefits cut in NY – NYPOST.com
nypost.com – Starting this week, the first of more than 750,000 New Yorkers will begin losing a big chunk of the extended unemployment benefits they were counting on this year to weather unprecedented rates of …
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Target Hiring 300 Employees For Loop Store: Chicagoist
chicagoist.com – Preparing for its grand opening this July, Target hosted a job fair this week where thousands of people have already applied for one of 300 positions at the Loop store. For some, a job offer at Tar…
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How to Use Social Media for Employee Referrals
mashable.com – The war for talent is more competitive than ever. Every company wants the best and the brightest on its team, but traditional candidate sourcing methods may not cut it anymore. As companies, we hav…
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Five Reasons Why the Jobs Engine Is Seizing Up – Businessweek
businessweek.com – What went wrong? Why did the U.S. economy generate only 69,000 jobs in May, worse than the lowest estimate among 87 economists surveyed by Bloomberg? Here are five theories, in descending order of …
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Three reasons why anyone, including conservatives, should oppose workfare »
labourleft.co.uk – Over the months I’ve read that companies like Tescos have advertised for a job position offering JSA and travel expenses as the pay. Most of the opposition for workfare up to this point comes from …
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Government sets up board to boost manufacturing
zeenews.india.com – Last Updated: Sunday, June 03, 2012, 17:06 0 Tweet Tags: Manufacturing Industry Promotion Board,MIPB,National Manufacturing Policy,Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion,DIPP,GDP New De…
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Three voices on the jobs report and what’s ahead – CBS News
cbsnews.com – If you believe this comment is offensive or violates the CBSNews.com Terms of Use, you can report it below (this will not automatically remove the comment). Once reported, our staff will be notifie…
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Obama blames EU for slow jobs growth, asks Europe to do more, Merkel says no.
livetradingnews.com – German Chancellor Angela Merkel hardened her opposition to joint debt sharing in the Euro region as US President Barack Obama singled out Europe’s leaders for not doing enough to fix the financial …
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Joblessness Rises: Are We on the Verge of Another Recession? | Economy
alternet.org – The White House must be telling itself there are still five months between now and Election Day, so the jobs picture could brighten. After all, we went through a similar mid-year slump in 2011 but…
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