Jobless Rate

Poll Shows Mounting Toll Of Joblessness On Nation

nytimes.com | MICHAEL LUO and MEGAN THEE | Posted 12.14.2009 | Business

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More than half of the nation's unemployed workers have borrowed money from friends or relatives. An equal number have cut back on doctor's visits or m...

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Unemployment Rate Falls To 10%, 11K Jobs Lost In November

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.05.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Two years of steep job cuts all but ended last month, unexpectedly pulling down the unemployment rate and raising hopes for a lasti...

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New Jobless Claims Fall For The Fifth Straight Week, Claims Hit 457K

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — The tally of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits fell unexpectedly for the fifth straight week, a hopeful sign tha...

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Jobs Summit: Good Ideas to Get Us Moving

Robert Holleyman | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

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Robert Holleyman

How elusive is the solution to America's unemployment spiral? One part of the solution is not elusive at all. It is innovation.

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Obama's Jobs Summit: Focus Turns To Putting People Back To Work

AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama promised at a White House jobs forum on Thursday to take "every responsible step to accelerate job creation,...

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Job Creation as Job One

Bradford Kane | Posted 12.05.2009 | Politics

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Bradford Kane

Here are three contributions to the national brainstorming session on how we can fix the unemployment problem in this country. Creating jobs needs to be job number one.

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One Million Jobs

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

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Amitai Etzioni

Millions of jobs, even if temporary, must be generated in short order, and the cost of these jobs must be kept low, in order to not increase the deficit unduly.

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Unemployment Benefits Extension: $100 Billion Safety Net In The Works

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — As unemployment spikes, the cost of compassion is going up too. By as much as $100 billion....

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Larry Summers: Cutting Unemployment Could Take Years

Yahoo! News | Alister Bull | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business

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"Addressing 10.2 percent unemployment is a matter of very great urgency. It is not something that is going to be fixed in a week, or a month, or a yea...

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5 Ways To Combat Unemployment Loneliness

divinecaroline.com | :Â Excelle (View Profile) | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

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Spending too much time alone can be detrimental, not just to your emotional well-being, but to your job search too! Staying connected with the rest of...

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Low Interest Rates Could fuel Speculative Financial Bubble: Federal Reserve

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve doesn't expect the recovery will be strong enough to quickly drive down the jobless rate, and acknowledged its ...

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Nouriel Roubini: Unemployment Hasn't Peaked, Worst Yet To Come

RGE | Nouriel Roubini | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

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Think the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening. While the official unemployment rate is already 10.2% an...

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Jobless Recovery: New York Times Op-Ed On The Worst Job Market Since WWII

nytimes.com | NYT | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

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If you are looking for an economic recovery you can believe in, the October employment report is not for you. ...

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Homebuyer Credit And Unemployment Extension Bills To Be Signed By Obama

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed a $24 billion economic stimulus bill into law Friday, giving tax incentives to prospective homebuyers...

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Unemployment Rate Hits 10 Percent For The First Time Since 1983

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Just when it was beginning to look a little better, the economy relapsed Friday with a return to double-digit unemployment for only...

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Reclaiming "We"

Terrance Heath | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

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Terrance Heath

When it comes to health care reform, the states most likely to benefit -- because they have the highest percentages of uninsured citizens -- are the source of the loudest objections to reform.

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7,000 Americans Run Out Of Unemployment Benefits Every Day

Yahoo! Finance | Tami Luhby, CNNMoney.Com Senior Writer | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

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Another day, another 7,000 people run out of unemployment benefits....

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The Government Needs to Take the Reins In Job Creation

Sen. Arlen Specter | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Arlen Specter

Recent signs of recovery and those who say the recession is over are cold comfort for the millions who are still searching for work or have stopped looking. Their world is bound by paying the bills and raising families.

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Frank Rich: Goldman Can Spare You A Dime

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

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As leader of the Wall Street pack, Goldman declared surging profits, keeping it on track to dispense a record $23 billion in bonuses for 2009. But mos...

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Hey You, with the Company: Hire Me!

Liz Black | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

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Liz Black

I want to have a reason to wake up in the morning, change my clothes and get out of the house. I want to use my creative brain for something more than quirky tweets and stylish outfit choices.

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Debt for a Diploma

Jose A. Garcia | Posted 11.28.2009 | Business

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Jose A. Garcia

To say debt is the result of poor choices and frivolous spending fails to capture the reality of the economic state of young people today.

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Unemployment For Young Americans Jumps To 52.2 Percent

New York Post | RICHARD WILNER | Posted 11.27.2009 | Business

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The unemployment rate for young Americans has exploded to 52.2 percent -- a post-World War II high, according to the Labor Dept. -- meaning millions o...

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Jobless Recovery = Sexless Marriage

Chip Conley | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

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Chip Conley

I wonder whether there's a growing disconnect between how we define macro-prosperity with how it shows up in our micro-lives -- and what kind of psychological damage that does to us.

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Rutgers Report: More Jobs Lost, But Wages Increase

AP | BETH DeFALCO | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

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TRENTON, N.J. — Despite the nation's highest jobless rate in 26 years, American workers are seeing some encouraging trends this Labor Day, accor...

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Teenage Jobless Rate Reaches Record High

New York Times | CATHERINE RAMPELL | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

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This August, the teenage unemployment rate -- that is, the percentage of teenagers who wanted a job who could not find one -- was 25.5 percent, its hi...

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