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The Decline Of Twinkie

Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Hostess-Bankruptcy, Hostess Lay Offs, Hostess Brands Lay Offs, Warn, Hostess Brands Bankruptcy, Warn Act, Unemployement, Hostess Brands Products, Los Angeles News

Twinkies and Ding Dongs may have made you smile, but now Hostess Brands Inc., the company responsible for making Twinkies and Ding Dongs, is making a ...

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House, Senate Pass Payroll Tax Cut Extension

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: House, Payroll Tax Cut Extension, Video, House Vote, Unemployement, Payroll Tax Cut, Jobless Benefits, Unemployment Benefits, 112th Congress, Obama Payroll Tax Cut, Payroll Tax, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Congress passed the extension of the payroll tax holiday Friday, voting overwhelmingly to continue the 2 percent break and extend emerge...

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[VIDEO] Occupy The Hood: Getting More People Of Color To Occupy Wall Street

Turnstyle | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Unemployement, Adele Pham, Trunstyle News, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Culture News

Originally published on turnstylenews.com/occupy, Turnstyle News' special coverage page of original, multimedia reporting on the Occupy Wall Street m...

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A Poor Excuse for Public Discourse

Scott Lilly | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Texas, Jobs, Debate, Presidental Debate Governors, Job Creation, Unemployement, Rick Perry, Republicans, Rick Perry Taxes, Rick Perry Texas, Rick Perry 2012, Rick Perry Oil, Politics News

With nearly a quarter of the nation's proven oil reserves, Texas collects a cool 7.5% on the market value of natural gas production and 4.6% on oil. What's puzzling is how little advantage Rick Perry has taken of this unique opportunity.

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United States Loses Video Game Jobs To Quebec

Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Video Games, Unemployement, Video Game Jobs, Technology News

By Liana B. Baker MONTREAL (Reuters) - Outside, the sun is shining, but it is dark in the production room where more than 150 Ubisoft artists, ani...

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Hope for Haiti's Unemployed

Amanda Lin Costa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Partners in Health, Mit, Unicef, Diaspora, Unesco, Amanda Lin Costa, Greg Elliot, Haiti, The Lone Olive, Mobile Technology, Haiti Earthquake, Illiteracy, Bob Lemoine, Volunteering, Aaron Zinman, Unemployement, Konbit, World News

Great ideas always come out of MIT. This one isn't any different. Konbit is a service that allows anyone to call a phone number in Haiti toll-free a...

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REPUBLICANS PLEDGE: "A TRICK BAG FOR AMERICA"

Danny Bakewell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care, Unemployement, Majority Whip James Clyburn, African Americans, Pledge to American, Politics News

by Danny J. Bakewell, Sr., Chairman National Newspapers Publishers Association (NNPA) The Republican Party has spent most of the past two years as t...

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Georgia Grandmother Sells Candy To Get By While Unemployed

Huffington Post | Brenda Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bearing Witness 2.0, Looking for Work, Bearing Witness, Recession Stories, Unemployement, Recession, Unemployement Stories, Impact News

UPDATE: In July, we published the following guest article in response to a callout for stories from the recession. We spoke to Brenda again re...

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'No Labor Market Recession For America's Affluent,' Low-Wage Workers Hit Hardest: STUDY

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Low-Income, Household Income, Labor Market, Unemployment Rate, Low-Wage Workers, America's Affluent, Bob Herbert, Jobs Crisis, Unemployement, Andrew Sum, Video, Business News

It's truly been a tale of two unemployment crises. Though the national unemployment rate dipped slightly in January to 9.7 percent, a new study sugge...

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Where We Are and Where We Were

Jared Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Job Market, Jobs, Job Growth, Economic Recovery, Jobs Recovery, Jobs Bill, Unemployement, Politics News

Our policies have helped move us from a situation where we were losing a nightmarish 750,000 jobs per month to one in which we are a lot closer to adding jobs, on net, on a regular basis.

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Obama Says Recovery Efforts Come Before Deficit Reduction

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Obama Jobs, Unemployement, Obama Job Summit, Obama Jobs Summit, Obama Deficit, Obama Jobs Decifict, Politics News

President Barack Obama on Thursday disputed the notion that he is overly concerned about the budget deficit -- and as a result, is under-reacting to t...

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Homeowners Facing Foreclosure Can't Find Lawyers

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: USA Today, Lawyers, Unemployement, Phoenix, Cleveland, New York University, Low Income Families, Low Income, Las Vegas, Home Foreclosures, Home Foreclosure, Impact News

WASHINGTON -- The nation's foreclosure crisis has swamped lawyers for the poor, leaving thousands of low-income homeowners across the country without ...

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Debt for a Diploma

Jose A. Garcia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Young Voters, Young Americans Unemployment Rate, Unemployment Rates, Jobless Rate, Unemployement, Economy, College Debt, Business News

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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Worker Compensation Grows by Lowest Amount On Record

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Employement, Lowest Worker Compensation, Unemployement, Econimic Crash, Labor Department, Department of Labor, Worker Compensation, Employment Compensation, Lowest Employment Compensation, Recession, Recession Economy, Business News

(AP): Employment compensation for U.S. workers has grown over the past 12 months by the lowest amount on record, reflecting the severe recession that ...

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Can I Get You Anything, Senator? Your Hat and Coat, Perhaps?

Leighann Lord | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jay Walking, Barry Bonds, Ethics, Senator Burris, Unemployement, A-Rod, Michael Phelps, Rod Blagojevich, Comedy News

Presidents Lincoln and Obama notwithstanding, aren't we supposed to grade Illinois politicians on a curve? They get an asterisk next to their names like steroid-filled baseball players.

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