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Jobs With The Biggest Talent Shortages

2012-05-30T15:21:47Z

The latest report on jobs this Friday is expected to reveal only moderate hiring as around 12.5 million Americans remain jobless. But according to a r...

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Why The Jobs Crisis Isn't Abating

2012-05-30T09:22:53Z

More Americans are sitting out their prime working years.

Fewer Americans between the ages of 25 and 54 have jobs than at any point in the 23 year...

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Jessica Arevalo: You Say Marriage, I Say Jobs

2012-05-30T06:12:05Z

Marriage equality is important, but I challenge the LGBTQ community to work together to prioritize legislation that encompasses a wider range of our community. Not everyone wants to get married. But everyone needs a job.

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U.S. Factories Rebounding On The Backs Of Low-Wage Workers

2012-05-29T11:27:49Z

American manufacturing may be starting to bounce back, but the workers responsible for the turnaround aren’t seeing much of a pay off.

U.S. manu...

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John R. Talbott: A Bold Plan to Get Americans Working Again

2012-05-29T08:33:46Z

What if the Treasury borrowed $2 trillion dollars in a series of 100 year bond offerings at say 4.5%? Rather than have the government waste the money on unneeded projects or squander it on more bank bailouts, the $2 trillion of proceeds could be distributed to the American people.

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David Vognar: We Work Too Hard

2012-05-28T16:13:22Z

It would behoove us to remember that slow and steady often wins the race, just as a more balanced approach to work life can be more beneficial than the helter-skelter mindset of our cut-throat labor market.

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Jeff A. Katz: Class of 2012: Get Uncomfortable

2012-05-27T16:13:30Z

After you walk across the stage and accept your diploma, there is a question you need to keep in mind and an answer for yourself when things get rough (and they will): What great things have come from being comfortable?

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Cory Booker Goes Off Message, Everyone Freaks For A Week: The Speculatron Weekly Round-Up

2012-05-25T17:17:23Z

This week, the 2012 election season finally got to pig out on an empty-calorie feeding frenzy, in which everyone in the media pretended to have some sort of lofty conversation about the role of private equity in society while actually reminding everyone else that political elites are completely removed from the real-life stakes of the lives of normal Americans. It made for a great show, though! Pundits screwed on their super-serious faces and reporters faked thoughtfulness and everyone who was pretending to know something about the subject did a fine job of acting like they were doing something interesting. But let's face it: The only reason anyone was talking about private equity was because somewhere, some surrogate had gone "off message," and suddenly there was catnip everywhere!

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More Trouble For Rick Scott

2012-05-25T11:12:50Z

Two legal groups want the federal government to investigate Florida's treatment of jobless workers following reforms that made the Sunshine State's un...

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A Good Sign?

2012-05-25T12:42:00Z

NEW YORK, May 25 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer sentiment rose to its highest level in more than four years in May as Americans stayed optimistic about t...

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Michael J.W. Stickings: The Shyster: How Romney Will Promise Anything to Be President

2012-05-24T18:08:01Z

As the Trojans might have said, beware of people named Mitt Romney making promises they cannot possibly keep.

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Jean-Michel Giraud: Building 'Homefulness' Out Of Homelessness

2012-05-24T11:00:00Z

"Homefulness."

I'm actually not sure that it is a word yet, but what a great idea! "Homefulness" instead of "homelessness." It's more than just four...

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Kevin M. Ryan: New Report Paints Vivid Picture Of Abuse Among Homeless Youth

2012-05-24T13:46:29Z

No one should have to go through the rites of adolescence from a homeless shelter. Creionna should not have had to go to the prom without a home of her own to return to. Benjamin should've had a roof, and a birthday cake, when he turned 18. Instead, he was left at our shelter.

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Obama On Older Workers' Unemployment: 'It's A Lot Tougher'

2012-05-24T12:57:08Z

President Barack Obama acknowledged in an interview published Thursday that older workers who lose their jobs have a harder time getting back to work ...

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Ross Eisenbrey: Blocking Labor Department Wage Rule Condemns Young Americans to Unemployment

2012-05-23T14:48:13Z

It is time for Congress to permit a true test of the labor market, a real opportunity for more U.S. workers to hear about and consider taking seafood-processing jobs like crab picking.

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Thanos Dimadis: Euro or Drachma? It's Not All About a Dilemma

2012-05-23T14:11:20Z

It's not only all about a dilemma but about how the Greek nation -- and especially young people -- will find again a reason to hope and believe that their future can get better, even if Greece after the very crucial next general elections can make it and stay hopefully in the eurozone.

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Jared Bernstein: Looking Over the Cliff

2012-05-23T12:13:42Z

Let's talk about the fiscal cliff -- you know, the one everyone's all wound up about? Well, the Congressional Budget Office just released their analysis of its potential impact on the economy and it ain't pretty. Add up all the stuff that's scheduled to turn into fiscal pumpkins at midnight on December 31, and you could get a serious impact on the economy. Unemployment would reverse course and start rising if that fiscal scenario remained in place -- but that's a big, important "if." All of the estimates assume we go off the cliff and don't climb back. But if, as Gail Collins imagines it, there's a bungee jump instead of a cliff dive, we can avoid the worst of this. One hopes that Congress can hammer the kind of compromise that has eluded them thus far -- the one that adds tax revenues to any agreement -- before the end of the year, or early next.

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'The Secret Power Of Customer Service Jobs'

2012-05-23T10:35:48Z

By Rachael Prokop

The jobs available to teenagers seem designed to make you feel powerless. Mechanically stuffing groceries into plastic bags. Serv...

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Huge Share Of Young People Are Unemployed Around The World

2012-05-22T15:37:04Z

Around the world, a generation is coming of age and finding nowhere to work.

Globally, one in eight young people will be unemployed this year, acco...

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Nedda Alammar: A Cautionary Tale: When Your Boss Wants to Become Your Friend

2012-05-22T18:22:34Z

When my boss wants me to just roam around his office/cubicle and talk about whatever until he's ready to leave and maybe go out for drinks with him, my defenses are up.

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Dr. Bonnie Snyder: The Majority of the Unemployed Went to College?

2012-05-22T17:41:22Z

I thought I had lost the capacity to be shocked, but I was wrong. Recently, Investors Business Daily reported that for the first time in history, the majority of jobless workers (57 percent) have attended college.

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David Vognar: Reducing Crime Through Policing and Employment

2012-05-22T15:56:38Z

Until creative ideas are revisited to target the people in America most subject to chronic unemployment, policing efforts alone are unlikely to do much besides temporarily stop the bleeding.

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Robyn Griggs Lawrence: I Am Fly. It Says So On My Nametag.

2012-05-22T08:13:06Z

For decades I thought I was in charge because I had dominion over editors and magazine content and kept myself very, very busy. Sitting at home was for sissies. I made things happen, and I exerted control, but my choices and directions always bent to the whim of the people who paid me.

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How Cutting Off Unemployment Benefits May Trim Jobless Rate

2012-05-21T17:14:00Z

Art Bailly of San Mateo, Calif., figured he had another couple months worth of unemployment insurance. He was super upset to discover two weeks ago th...

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Sanjay Sanghoee: Capitalist Revolution: Forget the Deficit and Learn From Europe

2012-05-18T13:06:35Z

Before we go wild with our deficit-cutting scythe, let's make sure that we are not hacking away at our own feet in the process.

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