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He'll Be Better For Job Creation, History Says

Posted 05.08.2012

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Democrats sure know how to create jobs, if recent history is any indication. Since John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1961, job growth under ...

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The View From the Rooftops

Mitch Feierstein | Posted 05.07.2012

Shareholders need to take a hit. That way, the ground will be cleared for better managed companies and stockholders will be reminded about the responsibilities of ownership. And central bankers should take responsibility too.

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Romney Says Obama Should Have Historically Rare Metric For Job Growth

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.04.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Friday's news of yet another month of tepid job growth in April provided Mitt Romney with an opening both to criticize the president's p...

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Unemployment Rate Falls To 8.1 Percent As People Give Up On Looking For Work

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 05.05.2012

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While the U.S. unemployment rate in April was the lowest it's been in more than three years, the unemployed may simply be falling off the government's...

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Skills Mismatch Doesn't Explain High Jobless Rate

Reuters | Posted 05.01.2012

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LOS ANGELES, April 30 (Reuters) - High U.S. unemployment does not signal a widening gap between employer needs and worker skills, according to resea...

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Strong Job Market Can Kill People: Study

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.12.2012

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A falling unemployment rate is typically good news, but some economists point to a glaring downside. When the jobless rate falls, the death rate goes ...

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The Jobless Are Screwed

Thom Hartmann | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Jobs, Jobless Rate, Job Market, Obama Jobs, Unemployment, Job Retraining, Obama Jobs Act, Job Training, Unemployment Rate, Paul Ryan Budget, Politics News

Even though the economy is slightly improving, businesses are having difficulty finding Americans workers who are trained and qualified to handle the new job.

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Iran Agrees To Talk, So Oil Prices Fall

Reuters | Posted 04.10.2012

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* Iran nuclear talks to be held in Istanbul * U.S., allies want end to high-level enrichment * Disappointing U.S. jobs d...

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Charter School Fires Entire Teaching Staff

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.06.2012

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Layoffs may be on the wane, but they haven't stopped entirely. Just ask the teachers at Philadelphia's Frontier Virtual Charter High School. On Mar...

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The High Cost of Nostalgia

Dina Gachman | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Internships, Job Market, Jobless Rate, 80s Nostalgia, Economy, Health Insurance, Sallie Mae, Nostalgia, Student Loans, Culture News

This brand of nostalgia feels much more real than the fleeting daydream of recess, as if twenty-two year olds truly do want to crawl back into their TVs and live safely tucked inside their favorite 80s sitcoms forever.

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No Work for the Willing

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.26.2012

Most young men and women today want to work hard, but for those under 25 years old, work has often been impossible to find.

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The Precarious Jobs Recovery

Robert Reich | Posted 05.09.2012

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Jobs are coming back fast enough to blunt Republican attacks against Barack Obama on the economy and to rob Mitt Romney of the issue he'd prefer to be talking about. But they're not coming back fast enough to significantly reduce the nation's jobs backlog.

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Unemployment Report: Missing Workers Mount Comeback

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 03.09.2012

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NEW YORK -- After a year without so much as looking at a job application, Lillian Acevedo once again can be counted as a member of the U.S. labor forc...

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And The Jobless Rate Is...

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.09.2012

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It's not hitting home runs or anything, but the job market is starting to put together a hitting streak of solid singles and doubles. The economy c...

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Crisis Pushes One Greek Town To Become 'Industrial Graveyard'

Reuters | Posted 05.04.2012

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By Renee Maltezou and Deepa Babington KOMOTINI, Greece, March 4 (Reuters) - Decades ago, Antonis Seitanidis' family fl...

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In Praise of Inefficiency

Carl Safina | Posted 04.22.2012

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Some people get rich by creating good things, and they support many people. But some people -- they used to be called robber barons -- succeed at others' expense. So just as wealth isn't necessarily bad, "efficiency" isn't necessarily good.

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These Jobs Less Popular For First Time In Basically Forever

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.17.2012

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The country's knowledge economy is beginning to get drowned out. Just 4.9 percent of all American jobs were in science or engineering fields in 201...

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RECOVERING THE RECOVERY: A Good Sign For American Jobs

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 04.17.2012

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WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell to the lowest point in almost four years last week, the latest signal that ...

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A Sign The Hiring May Be Strong Enough To Lower The Jobless Rate

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 04.10.2012

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WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking unemployment aid neared a four-year low last week, a positive sign that strong hiring could continue i...

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Maximum Duration Of Unemployment Insurance Dropping

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 02.06.2012

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Nearly 30,000 people enduring long-term joblessness in Michigan are set to lose their unemployment insurance as a federal program that provides the fi...

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Obama and Joblessness: Re-Election Hangs in the Balance

Stewart J. Lawrence | Posted 04.07.2012

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How should progressives respond to the latest reported drop in the official unemployment rate?

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Krugman: Optimism About Jobs May Prove 'Self-Defeating'

The New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 02.06.2012

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In a better world -- specifically, a world with a better policy elite -- a good jobs report would be cause for unalloyed celebration. In the world we ...

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Economists: Job Growth Won't Deter Fed From Another Massive Stimulus

Reuters | Posted 04.05.2012

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By Chris Reese NEW YORK, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Economists at most leading Wall Street firms stuck to their belief that the Federal Reserve will und...

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10 Careers That Are Dying Out

Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: U.S. Farming Industry, Jobless Rate, U.S. Farmers, Postal Service, Unemployment Rate, Agricultural Workers, Agriculture, Business News, Fast Food Industry, Occupations in Decline, Business News

Much as it looks like the job market may be starting to turn around for some, certain careers look poised for long and difficult declines. Sewing ...

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Jobless Claims Rose From Nearly Four-Year Low Last Week

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 03.27.2012

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WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose last week to a seasonally adjusted 377,000, up from a nearly four-year low ...

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