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Darkening Clouds... Silver Lining?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosures, Serve America Act, Job Losses, Economic Downturn, Unemployment, Job Cuts, Charity, Service, Economy, Donations, Americorps, Giving, Recession, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

While we are trying to move the economy to full capacity, we also need to make sure that our communities are operating at full capacity. Our full capacity of giving. Our full capacity of service. Our full capacity of compassion. As America's Misery Index soars, so must our Empathy Index.

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Private Sector Job Losses Reach 697,000 In February

Reuters | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Layoffs, Job Market, Job Losses, Jobs, Unemployment, Job Cuts, Private Sector Jobs, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- U.S. private sector job losses accelerated in February, according to a report by ADP Employer Services on Wednesday that came in...

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Job Losses Show That Recession Is Deep And Broad

New York Times | David Leonhardt | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Losses, Jobs, Unemployment, Business News

What does the worst recession in a generation look like? It is both deep and broad. Every state in the country, with the exception of a band stretchi...

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When You Don't Understand the Business You're in, You're Screwed (Good-Bye Newspapers)

James Boyce | Posted 03.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Layoffs, Job Losses, Rocky Mountain News, Death of Newspapers, Media, San Francisco Chronicle, Newspaper Closings, Media News
James Boyce

Ironically, delivering news through new media is cheap, fast and easy. Readers made the transition, it's just too bad so many newspapers, with so many good people, never did.

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A Novel Approach: Using Unemployment Benefits as a Means for Stimulus

Gary Ross | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Job Losses, Vouchers, Unemployment, Economic Stimulus Package, Celebrities Talk Politics, Stimulus Package, Economic Crisis, Unemployment Benefits, Job Creation, Stimulus, Politics News
Gary Ross

Why not allow recently laid off workers to apply their unemployment benefits toward their next job in the form of a voucher?

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Teenage Unemployment Hits 20%

Grant Cardone | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Unemployment, Ladder, Teenage Unemployment, Job Cuts, Monster, Job Losses, Grant Cardone, Recession, Business News
Grant Cardone

There is a disconnect between what is being taught in schools and what is needed and valued in the marketplace.

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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion Dollars? (LISTEN)

Roy Zimmerman | Posted 03.13.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Job Losses, Economic Downturn, Bailout, Satire, Recession, Eonomy, Recession Music, Comedy News
Roy Zimmerman

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The Jobs Market Is Collapsing

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 03.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Unemployment Numbers, Job Losses, Jobs, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Business News
Hale

The number of people who have been unemployed for 27 weeks and longer is at its highest level since 1982.

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The Map Out Of Doomsville

Karen Salmansohn | Posted 03.09.2009 | Living

Read More: The Balanced Life, Happiness, Career Advice, Careers, Job Losses, Job Cuts, Karen Salmansohn, Jonathan Fields, Career Renegade, Featured Contributor, Living News
Karen Salmansohn

Losing a job isn't fun. But instead of wallowing in Doomsville, you must see it as a new road of opportunity, leading you to that career you've always...

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Unemployment is Hard Work

Roseanne Colletti | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Career Advice, Jobs, Unemployment, Layoffs, Blogging the Meltdown, Job Losses, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News
Roseanne Colletti

Are you unemployed and working harder than ever?

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Bathroom for Rent

Val Brown | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Roommates, Job Losses, Unemployment, River View, Rent, Apartments, One Bedroom, New York Apartments, Renters, Real Estate, Sublet, Economy, Media News
Val Brown

Someone suggested getting a roommate. I'd rather drink bleach. Hell, I'd even rather live with my mother.

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8 Healthy Ways To Spend Time Post Lay Off

Health.com | Kate Stinchfield | Posted 03.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Job Losses, Job Loss, How to Deal With a Layoff, Healthy Lifestyle, Economic Crisis, Jobs, How to Deal With Problems at Work, Layoffs, Job Cuts, Health, How to Deal With Problems, How to Deal With Stress, Living News

If you've recently been handed a pink slip, you likely have a lot of free time on your hands. Once you've got your severance package and health insura...

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Dueling Docs

Janice Horowitz | Posted 03.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Job Losses, Plastic Surgery, Cosmetic Procedures, Face Lift, Restylane, Botox, Financial Crisis, Disposable Income, Luxury Goods, Job Market, Cosmetic Surgery, Lifestyle, Economy, Patients, Chemicals, Doctors, Living News
Janice Horowitz

In the face of nose-diving portfolios and little disposable income to go around, should ridding the face of wrinkles really be a priority? For that matter, should it ever be a priority?

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The Uncomfortable Circle: Off the Island

Xeth Feinberg | Posted 03.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Job Losses, Comics, Uncomfortable Circle, Lay Offs, Economy, Comedy News
Xeth Feinberg

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Loosen Mortgage Lending Standards

Mike Garibaldi-Frick | Posted 03.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Losses, Depression, Small Business, Bail Out, Housing, Economic Crisis, Economy, Jobs, Obama, Recession, Home, Home Foreclosures, Mortgages, Mortgage Relief, Subprime Mortgages, Wall Street, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Banking, Mortgage Rates, Banks, Housing Crisis, Refinance, Business News
Mike Garibaldi-Frick

We can continue bailing out the banks and Wall Street or, we can take a more reasonable approach by helping out the middle class in a real tangible way.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Layoffs, Job Losses, Washington Post, Bill Kristol, Bernie Madoff, Barack Obama, Madoff House Arrest, Economic Crisis, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

This week -- a week that saw unemployment claims hit a 42-year high, January layoffs hit 125,000, and President Obama call the economy "a continuing disaster" -- delivered a hard-to-top nominee for our Marie Antoinette Award: disgraced scam artist Bernie Madoff, who still so doesn't get it that he had the gall to bellyache about being cooped up in his $7 million Park Avenue apartment under "penthouse arrest" -- even as his victims face financial ruin. On the What Were They Thinking? front (Journalism Division), came word that Bill Kristol, hot on the heels of being dropped by the Times, was being picked up by the Washington Post, which is apparently eager to publish more unerring insights like Kristol's July 2007 gem: "George W. Bush's presidency will probably be a successful one."

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Unemployed: Mass Layoffs

Jeff Kreisler | Posted 03.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Unemployment Rates, Job Losses, Unemployed, Job Loss, Unemployment, Newly Unemployed, Comedy News
Jeff Kreisler

72,000 people lost their job this week. What does a voice of the unemployed have to say about it?

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Meltdown Madness: The Human Costs of the Economic Crisis

Nick Turse | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Robbery, Suicide, Job Losses, Financial Crisis, Blogging the Meltdown, Depression, Unemployment, Economic Crisis, Business News
Nick Turse

Across the United States, people have been reacting to the dire economic circumstances with extreme acts, including bank robberies, murder, and suicide.

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Canned or Not, Layoffs Affect Everyone

Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Layoffs, Layoffs, Job Losses, Jobs, Job Cuts, Work, Business Strategies, Business News
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone

The good news is that you just survived the most recent round of layoffs. The bad news is that your job just got bigger. How do you keep up with your workload when more is being piled on?

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New York To Lead US In Job Losses, Only Five Cities Expected To Escape Cuts: Report

AP | Posted 02.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Cuts, Job Losses, Unemployment, Unemployment by City, Economy, Ithaca New York, Fairbanks Alaska, St. George Utah, Business News

NEW YORK — Only five metropolitan areas in the U.S. will escape job losses this year, according to a forecast released Saturday by the U.S. Conf...

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21,000 Jobs Erased In One Day

Bloomberg | Oshrat Carmiel | Posted 02.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Losses, Jobs, Job Cuts, Unemployment, Business News

At least 21,000 jobs were targeted for elimination yesterday as employers from Hertz Global Holdings Inc. to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. grappled with...

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The Healthcare Crisis is the Employment Crisis

Deborah Burger | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Universal Health Care, Heatlh Care, National Nurses Organizing Committee, California Nurses Assoication, Layoffs, Job Losses, Economic Crisis, Citigroup Bailout, Obama Economic Plan, Congressional Bailout, Financial Crisis, Medicare, Institute for Health and Socio-Economic Policy, Obama Health Care, Sustainability, Ihsp, Politics News
Deborah Burger

If America summons the courage, and the will, to resolve our health care crisis, we can provide our national economy with a genuine and long-term stimulus.

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It's Bad, It's Bad -- And That's Good!

Richard Laermer | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Success, Work Tips, Job Losses, Workplace, Business Advice, Getting Ahead, Jobs, Happiness, Business News
Richard Laermer

These are the times when you got to stop whining and do something. And I'm sorry to say you are going to have to change habits -- that's the good news. The bad is it may hurt.

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The Economy, 2009: Brother Can You Spare A Dime?

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 02.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Layoffs, Job Losses, Obama Homelessness, Poverty, Bush Homelessness, Charity, Empathy, Homelessness, Sympathy, Bernie Madoff Victims, Documentary, New Years Resolution, New Disenfranchised, Recession, Involuntary American Nomads, Living News
Barry Michael Cooper

Some woke up into this New Year with a square of sidewalk for a pillow and a cardboard box for a comforter. It used to be a few paychecks away from me. Now, I'm only a few weeks ahead of it.

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The Art of Working with Recruiters

Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 01.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Losses, Job Cuts, Careers, Recruiting, Job Layoffs, Jobs, Recruitment, Job Search, Job Hunt, Business News
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone

When working with recruiters, no fudging your resume or involvement in key projects. The truth will come out eventually and inconsistencies will weaken your candidacy.

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