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Innovation Is Needed to Match Workers With Jobs

Jim Gibbons | Posted 05.08.2012

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With 12.5 million people out of work and 3.5 million jobs open, we should certainly be doing everything possible to help employers and workers. Fortunately, there are plenty of innovators out there coming up with new ways to help.

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Obama Promises Summer Jobs In Aim To Lure Young Voters

Reuters | Posted 05.03.2012

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By Lily Kuo WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - The White House pledged on Wednesday to help lower-income youth find summer jobs in a move ...

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Teenage Workers Hit Hardest By Recession's Job Losses

Reuters | Posted 03.24.2012

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* Fewer than half who lost jobs got another * New jobs often paid less * Teens hard-hit by weak job market ...

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10 Sought-After Second Careers

Second Act | Posted 12.06.2011

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Elizabeth Hanes spent years in middle management at a corporate job before she turned 45 and decided she wanted more out of life. She enrolled in n...

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Cities With The Most Job Postings

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 08.01.2011

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Terrible as the job crisis might be, not all job markets are created equal. And certain cities have seen particularly notable improvement. The num...

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Workers In The Recession May Have Jobs, But They're Not Happy

DailyFinance | CHARLES WALLACE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Office Stress, Job Satisfaction, Unemployment, Workers, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Jobs, Worker Stress, Business News

Sure, the recession has been hard on the unemployed. But what about workers who still have jobs? Turns out, they are depressed, too. They are exhauste...

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PHOTOS: The 13 Least Common Jobs In America

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just because a person's job is a bit out of the ordinary, doesn't mean it pays well. We culled through the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) m...

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How Americans Spend Their Free Time During The Downturn

Huffington Post | Sherry Shen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Free-Time, Unemployed, Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Leisure, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Jobless, U.S. Unemployment Rates, Rising Unemployment, Business News

Stubbornly persistent unemployment has certainly inflicted more than a little economic stress, but that's not stopping Americans from enjoying their l...

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Volunteerism Up In 2009: 63 Million Americans Volunteered At Least Once

AP | ANN SANNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A million and a half more Americans volunteered to help with such activities as raising money, collecting food and tutoring childre...

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The Message of Massachusetts: Jobs

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Research 2000, Battleground Poll, Scott Brown, White House, Bill Clinton, Celinda Lake, President Obama, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bush I, Democrat, Jobs, Massachusetts, Main Street, Afl-Cio, Martha Coakley, Republican, MoveOn.Org, Pink Slips, Unemployment, Wall Street, Great Recession, Bush II, A Framework for Revitalizing American Manufacturing, Hart Research Associates, Richard Trumka, Business News

Bill Clinton saw it clearly when he was running for President against Bush I. It became his mantra: "It's the economy, stupid." Clinton wanted to ref...

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Economic Crisis: Lay Offs Highest Since '01

Read More: Illinois Unemployment, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Illinois Unemployment Rate, Illinois Job Cuts, Economic Crisis, Recession, Financial Crisis, Illinois Department of Employment Security, Illinois Jobs, Chicago News

Illinois companies cut their payrolls in November by the greatest number of jobs in about seven years, while unemployment stayed at a 15-year high, go...

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