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Baseball Legend's Video Game Company Lays Off Entire Staff After 'Economic Downturn'

Reuters | Ros Krasny | Posted 05.29.2012

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By Ros Krasny BOSTON (Reuters) - The troubled video gaming company run by former Red Sox baseball great Curt Schilling seemed on the ve...

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The Surprising Casualty Of The Financial Crisis

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2012

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By Michelle Conlin May 24 (Reuters) - The financial crisis and its aftermath have been brutal for Wall Street's riches...

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'Pink Slime' Uproar Leads To Pink Slips For Workers

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.11.2012

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The uproar over "pink slime" beef products may have claimed some collateral damage, with a meatpacking worker in California saying she and her colleag...

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Laid-Off MF Global Employee Can't Even Get A Job Here

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.08.2012

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Those years at MF Global can't even ensure you a retail job these days. Former mid-level MF Global employee Dan Whiteford says he has yet to be of...

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Fortune 500 Companies Made Record $824 Billion Profit In 2011

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.08.2012

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Poverty is rampant. Hunger is widespread. But don't worry about America's largest corporations -- they're doing just fine. Fortune released its ann...

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California's 4th Year Of Teacher Layoffs Spur Concerns

AP | CHRISTINA HOAG | Posted 05.05.2012

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LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Unified teacher Mike Newman sighed when he saw the now familiar certified letter in his mailbox last month – a pink s...

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Official In Bankrupt County: State Is 'Kicking The Can'

Reuters | Posted 05.03.2012

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By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 2 (Reuters) - Alabama's bankrupt Jefferson County is laying off more government w...

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Big Bank Plans To Lay Off Thousands

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.01.2012

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Occupy Wall Street protests are the least of Bank of America's problems. The bank is starting to lay off its more profitable employees. On Tuesday,...

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Cut and Paste Jobs

The Cavalier Daily | Posted 04.28.2012

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The University of Florida announced last week it would make significant cuts to its computer science program. Looking to save face rather than future, the university protested to Forbes, which first broke the story, this was reorganization and not a direct cut.

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For Wall Street, The Great Recession Continues

The Huffington Post | D.M. Levine | Posted 04.25.2012

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It seems the world of finance is still in the throes of its own great recession. One hundred of the largest cities in the U.S. have shed a total o...

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Paul Krugman: Job Loss Under Bush Much Worse Than Under Obama

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.23.2012

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As much as the job market has suffered under President Obama, his record up to this point is still better than that of his predecessor. That's the...

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Oops! Company Accidentally Fires Huge Number Of Workers

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.20.2012

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More than 1,000 employees at one British company likely had at least one unnecessary panic attack among them on Friday. Some 1,300 workers receive...

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Spring Cleaning for a Speedier Economic Recovery

Joel Brokaw | Posted 04.13.2012

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With the U.S. economy beginning to rebound, it is high time for businesses both big and small to get proactive and clean house of wasteful and counterproductive practices.

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10 Industries Where People Are Getting Fired

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.13.2012

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Many Americans working at call centers were down on their luck last month. Telecommunications firms experienced the most planned job cuts in March...

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The 10 Worst Jobs In The United States

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.11.2012

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One of the nearly 13 million Americans looking for work? You might want to think twice before applying to these jobs. Fewer employment opportuniti...

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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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Sony Reportedly Plans To Cut 10,000 Jobs

Reuters | Posted 04.10.2012

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* Jobs could go as early as this year * Chemicals, LCD ops to account for half the cuts * Seven execs may be asked to ha...

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Recovery No Help For Many Laid-Off Government Employees

Reuters | Posted 04.09.2012

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By Lisa Lambert April 8 (Reuters) - Since 2009, the city of Chesapeake, tucked up against the Great Dismal Swamp in southern Virginia,...

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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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Detroit Employment Rate Looking Up, Until City Layoffs Hit

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 04.06.2012

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While data released this week showed a drop in Detroit's unemployment rate in February, impending layoffs for the city's largest employer might walk D...

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Unemployed, Barely Getting By And Fearing The Future

Posted 04.07.2012

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The U.S. economy added 120,000 jobs in March, the Labor Department announced Friday, fewer than economists expected, and the unemployment rate decline...

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Tech Giant May Axe Thousands Of Jobs Next Week

Reuters | Posted 03.31.2012

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SAN FRANCISCO, March 30 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will begin layoffs of thousands of employees next week and will announce a plan to restructure the com...

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Jobless Claims Hit Lowest Level In Four Years

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 03.29.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits dropped last week to the lowest level in four years, adding to evidence that the...

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Making Changes for a Positive Life

Kristen Houghton | Posted 05.28.2012

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Kristen Houghton

What happens if the career path you've taken and enjoyed hits a dead-end?

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Those Matching Work Outfits Could Cost You Your Job

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.19.2012

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It's always a little bit embarrassing when you show up to work wearing the same thing as the person who shares your cubicle (a situation we're very fa...

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