Great Recession

Lawyers Have Income Inequality Problems, Too

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.16.2012

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Income inequality is a problem among lawyers, too. As The Wall Street Journal notes, the country's richest lawyers have gotten richer since the Gre...

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America's Dying Industries

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Instagram, Dying Industries, Ibisworld, Corporate Profits, 24/7 Wall St., Great Recession, Economy, Photofinishing, Employment, Manufacturing, Eastman Kodak, Washington Post, Economic Policy Insitute, Facebook, Business News

Some industries just may not have what it takes to survive today's changing economic climate. Technological advances, offshore manufacturing and s...

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The Things We Do for... Rent Money

Dina Gachman | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Sallie Mae, Jobs, Rent Money, Silly Jobs, Entrepreneurship, Student Loans, Economy, Great Recession, Money News

Most of us have fantasized about winning the lotto or creating the next Angry Birds or Pet Rock so we can dump a Louis Vuitton bag of cash on the lawn of Sallie Mae headquarters and pay off our student loans, then set sail on a yacht to celebrate.

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In America, A Rising Tide Lifts Only Some Boats

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.10.2012

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It doesn't just seem like America is dividing into two nations -- one where luxury spending is going strong, the other where more and more people can'...

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Recovery No Help For Many Laid-Off Government Employees

Reuters | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Layoffs, Workforce, State Government, Housing Market, Recovery, Unemployment, Private Sector, Great Recession, Labor Department, Reuters, Jobs, Government Employees, Moody's, Business News

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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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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Suing School

The Daily Princetonian | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Employment, Law School Law Suit, New York Law School, Unemployment, Princeton University, Great Recession, Law School, Unemployment Rate, Job Placement, College News

Whether a school boasts an employment rate of 95 percent or 50 percent post-graduation, this does not guarantee that the numbers will stay the same from year to year. A great year for employment could be followed by a dismal one.

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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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Bloomberg Businessweek on Obama, Economic Steward

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.28.2012

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Mostly, it seems to mean that if Obama doesn't fully embrace your economic faith, then he has no faith at all, that he's a sort of economic atheist. But that's not the case at all.

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Why Independent Employment Is Killing the Nine to Five Job

Leah Busque | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Underemployed, 9 to 5, Unemployed, Great Recession, Unemployment, Entrepreneurship, Self-Employed, Independent Employment, Small Business, Small Business America, Small Business News

The term "nine-to-five" has long symbolized a kind of drudgery that sucks up our lives and eclipses our identities, but it wasn't until the Great Recession that the pejorative phrase was crowned with an entirely new distinction: old-fashioned.

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Education and Infrastructure: Rebuilding America

Kathy Kemper | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: U.S. Economy, Investing, Third Industrial Revolution, Debt Crisis, Innovators, Investment, Economy, Financial Crisis, Innovation, Great Recession, Yale CEO Caucus, Business News

People are America's most valuable resource and if we want to get ahead in a competitive global economy, we need to invest in our human capital.

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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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Summers: 'Extraordinary Steps' By Policymakers Responsible For Recovery

Reuters | Posted 05.26.2012

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(Lawrence Summers is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.) By Lawrence H. Summers CAMBRIDGE, Ma., M...

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Ten Tips for Finding Work in a Tough Economy

BJ Gallagher | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Finding Work, Interpersonal Skills, Optimism, Great Recession, Job Hunting, Reinventing Yourself, Self-Improvement, Joblessness, Business, Business News

While the outlook for our country is getting brighter, the outlook for hundreds of thousands of individuals still seems bleak. What can you do if you're one of those folks whose job -- and/or company -- is gone forever?

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Surprising Share Of Jobless Say American Dream Within Reach

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.22.2012

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Despite the economic hardship that the Great Recession has caused millions of Americans, belief in the American Dream is still alive and well, even fo...

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Millennials in the Balance

Christopher Haugh | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Job Numbers, Great Recession, Baby Boomers, Unemployment Rate, Economy, Occupy Wall Street, Millennials, Job Market College Graduates, College Graduates, Millennials Jobs, College News

The twilight cohort of the millennial generation is caught in a matrix of impossible expectations in a world suddenly unwilling to open its doors.

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Voters Get It, Elites Not So Much

Mike Lux | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: History, Economy, Barack Obama, Progressives, Economic Recovery, Obama Economy, 2012 Election, Osawatomie Speech, Elections 2012, Great Recession, Obama 2012, Politics News

It is striking how much better regular folks understand than most of the elites in this country what is really going on with this economy. That is why I continue to fear a more upbeat message on the economy from the Obama team will cause him to lose.

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Greater Lawlessness Causes Great Recessions

Harlan Green | Posted 05.19.2012

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Greg Smith's unveiling of Goldman Sachs' "culture" of profits ahead of clients' interests was nothing new. But there is little mention of the behavior that caused our economic decline into the Great Recession.

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New Yorkers, Like Everyone, More Prone To Suicide In Bad Economy

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.19.2012

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It's not just bank accounts that hurt.when the economy flags. For the past 20 years, suicide rates among New York City residents have risen and fal...

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Why I Find Barack Obama Wanting

Curtis Roosevelt | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: 2010 Midterm Elections, Elections 2012, Great Recession, Barack Obama, Politics News

President Obama has had more than three years in the White House to show us what he is made of and what he can do as president. His speeches remain brilliant, but I find him wanting.

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We Have to Choose What Kind of a People We Are

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Emmanuel Saez, Democrats, Michael Bloomberg, Great Recession, Economy, Republicans, Politics News

We can't simply tell a young generation that the American Dream is a nightmare for them. We can't have a prosperous economy if the middle class is sinking. We will not long be a democracy if the wealthiest pocket the rewards and check out of building the nation.

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Youth Programs In Higher Demand Amid Unemployment, Funding Cuts

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 05.12.2012

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WASHINGTON — A survey of Salvation Army youth programs in more than 80 cities shows more than eight in 10 programs saw increased demand from chi...

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Steve Jobs and American Jobs

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Outsourcing, Labor Unions, Unemployment, Steve Jobs, Wages, Manufacturing, Jobs, Apple Labor, Great Recession, Recession, Apple Foxconn, The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Business News

Throughout the first decade of the new century, before the recession hit, wages lagged behind living costs for the vast majority of Americans -- because the top one percent were capturing such a large share of the economy's total productivity gains. Some of this trend was the result of globalization undercutting the bargaining power of U.S. workers; some of it resulted from weakened trade unions and minimum wage laws lagging behind inflation. So when we finally climb out of this jobs recession, perhaps we can belatedly confront these deeper trends. How to do that? Unions, wage regulation, progressive taxation, and government using existing powers that it seldom exercises. But what about manufacturing? This brings me to the other Jobs of my title, the late Steve Jobs.

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America's Economic Gulag

James Forr | Posted 05.09.2012

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These feelings of unjust restriction have fundamentally altered how our participants see their country. If America no longer stands for freedom, as it has since the time of the Founding Fathers, then what does it stand for?

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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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