Early Data Suggest More Suicides In 2008; Rise Is Similar To Past Recessions
Early signs suggest the number of suicides in the U.S. crept up during the worst recession in decades, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of st...
Early signs suggest the number of suicides in the U.S. crept up during the worst recession in decades, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of st...
ABC News | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
When the pink slip comes, trouble follows -- financial, but emotional as well. Three in 10 Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll sa...
AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 11.20.2009 | Denver
DENVER — A shrinking labor force and about 1,000 new jobs have helped put Colorado's latest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October at...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
Unemployment rates are up from this time last year in all 50 states, but recently the situation improved somewhat -- employment increased in 28 states...
Jason Mannino | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
Many fear networking or judge it, thinking that networking is equivalent to brown nosing. Simply put, networking is the art of cultivating mutually beneficial relationships to achieve professional goals.
Jim Carr | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
While there is legitimate concern over the size of the federal deficit, the threat to the economy of continued high levels of unemployment is more urgent. Unemployment is now the leading reason families are losing their homes.
AP | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York's unemployment rate inched to 9 percent in October from 8.9 in September. State labor department officials say that's t...
Chicago Reporter | Alden Loury | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago
An analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau's 2008 American Community Survey shows that the collective unemployment rate for four Chicago community areas ra...
AP | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Illinois' unemployment rate continued to climb last month, rising to its highest level in more than a quarter century, officials repor...
CNBC | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business
US mortgage delinquency rates and the percentage of loans that entered the foreclosure process jumped in the third quarter, with both reaching record ...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green
Washington has doled out hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to foreign renewable energy firms, which compete with and run all over fledgling U.S. firms that were supposed to get the money.
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER and TALI ARBEL | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — A gauge of future economic activity and a report on unemployment benefits signaled Thursday that the recovery likely will remain we...
Les Leopold | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business
Weatherization should be the Democrats' dream program. In one fell swoop you create jobs, reduce living expenses, improve national energy security, enhance business profitability and confront global warming.
realsimple.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
Blindsided by a job loss, the unfamiliar isn't to be feared: It can be a chance to turn your life around....
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business
One million people will stop receiving unemployment benefits in January unless Congress makes a move before the Christmas recess, according to an anal...
James Altucher | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
At the end of the day, don't succumb to populist panic. Capitalism works and is on its way to a recovery if we just sit back and let it happen.
Huff TV | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media
Huffpost political reporter Sam Stein appeared on The Ed Show Wednesday and weighed in on the nation's high unemployment rate and what it could mean f...
Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Democrats in Congress want to use unspent TARP funds to support homeowners and struggling workers, according to The Hill. More than half of the Democ...
Robert Reich | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
The dirty little secret on each side of the Pacific is that both America and China are capable of producing far more than their own consumers are capable of buying. The root of the problem is in domestic inequality.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
How do we fix the job problem? We've got to build a new economy on a strong foundation of basic investment in education and training, in 21st century infrastructure, and in research and development -- all of which have got the short end of the stick in the era of tax cut, squander and plunder conservatism. And we've got to insure that the US is a leader in the new green industrial revolution that will be the growth industry of the future.
William Drayton | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
Double-digit unemployment crosses an undeniable perceptual threshold in the public's mind. When we hit it, the political rhetoric around the climate bill shifted, and the jobs connection was finally made explicit.
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
I wanted to enjoy my fleeting feelings of karmic payback, knowing how many toxic loans were closed in these cavernous offices. Instead, I pondered: how many jobs in our altered real estate landscape were lost and gone forever?
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
For the first time in a long time, White women are more likely to have jobs than Black women. Why are Black women falling further behind?
Val Brown | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media
Disney, perhaps belatedly realizing that it needs to get a little edgier to appeal to today's kids, announced last week that they will be launching a ...
Marshall Auerback | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
The president still seems curiously hamstrung by his Herbert Hoover-like devotion to fiscal rectitude: he wants to spend but not add "one dime to the deficit."
Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY and BETSY MCKAY | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living