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10 "Bulletproof Your Relationship Tips" for the Unemployed

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Santa Claus, Bulletproof Your Job, Unemployment Rate, Career, Resumes, Unemployed, Job, Office, Laid Off, Business, Family, Living News
Stephen Viscusi

Are these questions familiar? How many resumes did you send out today? Did you call so and so? How about going back on the search engines? Why is the house such a mess if you are home all day?

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Jobless Turn To Prospecting For Gold, Rather Than Jobs

washingtonpost.com | Karl Vick | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployed, Gold Rush, Jobless, Gold Prices, Gold Prospecting, Precious Metals, Business News

COLUMBIA, Calif. -- Maybe it was the nail in Ray's head. Maybe it was the economy. His wife said one as much as the other drove the decision to auctio...

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New Jobless Claims Rise Unexpectedly To 576K

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writer | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business

Read More: New Jobless Claims, Unemployed, Unemployment, Jobless Rate, Unemployment Rate, Jobless Claims, Recession, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The number of first-time claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly for the second straight week, a sign that jobs remain scarce...

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St. Louis Teabag Protester Lies about Medical Coverage to Solicit "Donations"

Chris Savage | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, St. Louis, Kenneth Gladney, Unemployed, Unemployment, Universal Health Care, Donations, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Health Benefits, The Washington Independent, Politics News
Chris Savage

Mr. Gladney was neither "laid off" nor without health insurance coverage. He lied in public about needing money for his bills and is now profiting off his lie.

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Job Hunting at Midlife: Past My Prime?

Tamar Abrams | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Consulting, Unemployed, Unemployment, Middle Age, Economy, Middle Class, Washington University at St. Louis, Recession, Botox, Living News
Tamar Abrams

Here I am, for the first time in recent memory, having to craft a compelling resume. Am I going to regret scoffing at the idea of Botox and lip injections?

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Unemployed Struggle With Credit Checks In Job Search

nytimes.com | JONATHAN D. GLATER | Posted 09.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Jobless, Unemployed, Credit Rating, Credit Checks, Unemployment Rate, Business News

Digging out of debt keeps getting harder for the unemployed as more companies use detailed credit checks to screen job prospects....

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How To Keep Your Job Without Resorting To Blackmail

Jason Mannino | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Unemployed, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Exercise, Gossip, Jobs, Meditation, Management, Stress Reduction, Exercise Tips, Employment, The Balanced Life, Recession, Living News
Jason Mannino

Ninety percent of our eligible workforce remains employed even though we are currently experiencing the worst unemployment rate in 26 years. Stress le...

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Arthur Delaney

Plugging Along At 62 With Lots Of Debt, No Job And No Credit

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Cards, Unemployed, Unemployment, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Credit Crisis, Down-Not-Out, Bearing Witness 2.0, Bearing Witness, Business News

James O'Connell of California wrote the Huffington Post in response to an item about credit card companies tightening payment requirements for cardhol...

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States Where The Unemployed Have Stopped Looking For Jobs

US News and World Report | Liz Wolgemuth | Posted 08.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Jobs, Unemployed, Jobless Rate, States, Unemployment Rate, Business News

In some U.S. states, nearly half of the job seekers who have stopped looking for work have done so because they simply don't believe they'll find anyt...

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8 Ways How Sex Compares to the Job Search

Neal Rodriguez | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployed, Job Interviews, Job Search, Business News
Neal Rodriguez

Whether you're looking to attract your next great romance or a job, you've got to make a better impression than Bruce Wayne flying into dinner on helicopter.

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U.S. Considering Mortgage Help for Unemployed

Reuters | Patrick Rucker and David Lawder | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Real Estate Crisis, Unemployed, Mortgage Aid, Unemployment, Barack Obama, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is mulling new ways to delay foreclosure for jobless homeowners who are unable to keep up with ...

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Mancession: Recession Hits Men Particularly Hard

The Atlantic Business Channel | By Derek Thompson | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployed, Mancession, Unemployment, Unemployment Men, Unemployment Rate, Christina Hoff Summers, Mark Perry University of Michigan, Business News

What is a mancession, you ask? It's not this. It's a recession that hurts men much more than women, and we are allegedly in the worst mancession in re...

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'Mancession': Recession Hits Men Particularly Hard

The Atlantic Business Channel | By Derek Thompson | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployed, Unemployment, Mancession, Unemployment Men, Christina Hoff Summers, Unemployment Rate, Mark Perry University of Michigan, Business News

What is a mancession, you ask? It's not this. It's a recession that hurts men much more than women, and we are allegedly in the worst mancession in re...

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Arthur Delaney

Down, Not Out: Unemployed And Happier Than Ever

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Down-Not-Out, Unemployed, Unemployment, Jobs, Credit Crunch, Credit Crisis, Business News

Dixie Redfearn of Nevada City, Calif. wrote the Huffington Post to say her 30-year journalism career ended when she lost her job more than four months...

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Mark Sanford is the Luckiest Politician on the Planet

Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 08.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jackson, Mark Sanford, Unemployed, Sarah Palin Press Conference, South Carolina, Jon Stewart, Sarah Palin, Press Conference, Paul Begala, The State, Wayne Washington, Republicans, Gop, OEconomic Stimulus Package, Argentina, Media News
Elizabeth Rigby

It has been merely twelve days since Mark Sanford's disastrously-rambling press conference in which he admits to an on-going affair, not to mention le...

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Recovery? Try End of 2011

Diane Francis | Posted 07.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployed, Recovery, Economic Stimulus Package, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Stimulus Package, Economy, Bank Crisis, Economic Recovery, Economic Stimulus, Taxation, Stimulus, Business News
Diane Francis

The bottom line is we're at the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end.

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Unemployed Hit The Road To Find Jobs

Wall Street Journal | JENNIFER LEVITZ | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unemployed Find Jobs, Unemployed Hit the Road, Unemployed, Politics News

LINCOLN, N.H. -- After seven months without a paycheck, Tim Ryan turned into a werewolf. Laid off from a construction job, Mr. Ryan finally found w...

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Why Get Paid For A Job When You Can Work For Free?

Emily Bracken | Posted 07.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Job Market, Internships, Mediabistro, Unemployed, Available-Jobs, Unemployment, Craigslist-Ads, How-to-Get-Hired, Craigslist, Jobs, Job Listings, US Job Market, Interns, Comedy News
Emily Bracken

There are jobs to be had, just maybe not where you were looking. Just add "intern" or "free" to any search and you'll come upon hundreds of hits.

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I Won't Chat! Don't Ask Me!

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Oscar Hammerstein, Depression, Linkedin, Twittering, Unemployed, Friends, Kerns, Online, Online Chat, Fields, Facebook, Internet Etiquette, Fred-Astaire, Communication, Media News
Lita Smith-Mines

Here's my appeal to certain unemployed friends: step away from your cell phones and computers!

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It Will Be Years Before Jobs Return To Much Of US: McClatchy

McClatchy | Tony Pugh | Posted 07.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployed, Economy, Financial Crisis, Jobs, Personal Finance, Recession, Business News

Unlike the labor market collapse that killed millions of U.S. jobs in a matter of months, the nation's return to peak employment will not be nearly as...

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Unemployed Men Struggle In Dating Game

AP | MEGAN K. SCOTT | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployed, Unemployment, Sean Hamilton, Dating, Bureau of Labor Statistics, perfectmatch.com, Being Single, Business News

NEW YORK — Sean Hamilton considered stopping his search for that special someone when he lost his job in January. With 90 percent less income and...

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Jobless Claims Fall, First Decline In 20 Weeks

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Department of Labor, Unemployment Benefits, Financial Crisis, Unemployed, Unemployment Rate, Labor Department, Business News

WASHINGTON — The number of people on the jobless rolls is down by a fraction, but those figures could be deceiving: Economists expect the unempl...

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Are You Advertising Your Job Search?

Jason Mannino | Posted 06.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployed, Unemployment, Job Cuts, Social Networking, Advertising, Microsoft, Jobs, Branding, Marketing, Career Coach, Facebook, Job Search, Business News
Jason Mannino

Eric's employment ad on Facebook positioned him as a positive candidate while simultaneously targeting the employers he was most interested in.

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Unemployment Claims Hit Record At 6.78 Million

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Unemployment Benefits, Unemployed, Auto-Industry-Layoffs, Unemployment Rate, Flood-of-Unemployment-Claims, Business News

WASHINGTON — The economy is sending a message of hope laced with caution: That the recession is steadily easing, but new threats could delay any...

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Get on the Breadline!

Lawrence Levi | Posted 06.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Layoffs, Job Losses, Unemployed, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Economy, Economic Crisis, Unemployment Benefits, Recession, Living News
Lawrence Levi

The Breadline is a website devoted to telling the tales of the unemployed -- in their own words. It's a place for fun commiseration, or, as we like to call it, "A blog of reduced circumstances and gallows humor.

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