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

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.04.2009 | 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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States May Shed Another Million Jobs

Aaron Glantz | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

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Aaron Glantz

Unless Congress and Obama create a "bold jobs program," state and local governments could shed almost a million jobs next year, further worsening our national unemployment rate, labor leaders say.

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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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Job Creation as Job One

Bradford Kane | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business

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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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Unemployment Up In Almost Half Of U.S. Metro Areas

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Unemployment worsened or stayed the same in most metro areas in October, the Labor Department said Wednesday, as jobs remained scar...

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One Million Jobs

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Job Market, Job Losses, Unemployed, Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Economy, Economic Crisis, Employment, Obama Administration, Jobs, Politics News
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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Obama: Hold A Real Jobs Fair; Not A Useless Jobs Summit

Robert Guttman | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

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Robert Guttman

The Jobs Summit will involve lots of talking and picture-taking to try to make it look as if the administration is actually taking steps to solve the massive unemployment problem. It won't result in a single job.

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Paul Krugman: It's Time For An Emergency Jobs Program

New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

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So it's time for an emergency jobs program. How is a jobs program different from a second stimulus? It's a matter of priorities. The 2009 Obama sti...

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What We Can Learn From E. Wight Bakke

Alice O'Connor | Posted 11.27.2009 | Business

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Alice O'Connor

The lesson to remember from E. Wight Bakke and his Depression era contemporaries is that a recovery without jobs is no recovery at all.

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Navigating the Jobs Crisis: Households Need a Bailout, Too

Jan Kregel | Posted 11.27.2009 | Business

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Jan Kregel

Support of financial institutions is justified because they are too big and interconnected to resolve. Yet, households -- in aggregate bigger and more interconnected -- are being allowed to fail.

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Navigating the Jobs Crisis: Direct Job Creation - Lessons from Argentina

Pavlina R. Tcherneva | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

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Pavlina R. Tcherneva

If the U.S. government creates a permanent, voluntary public employment program that offers a living-wage job to anyone willing and able to work in a public service project, unemployment will be addressed directly.

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Navigating the Jobs Crisis: Race to the Unemployment Line

Barbara R. Arnwine | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

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Barbara R. Arnwine

Obama is right to note that he must "get the economy as a whole moving to be able to help anybody," but that effort should not be mutually exclusive from assisting those communities disproportionately impacted.

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Vets Battle Unemployment and War Injuries

Aaron Glantz | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

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Aaron Glantz

Recently discharged vets are joining the swelling ranks of the country's unemployed. They bring to the job hunt both special skills and training and, often, the terrible traumas and injuries of their military experiences.

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It's All About The Jobs, Smartie!

Pat Choate | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

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Pat Choate

President Obama does not seem to understand seems that the single most important concern for most Americans is the vast and growing national joblessness.

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Early Data Suggest More Suicides In 2008; Rise Is Similar To Past Recessions

Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY and BETSY MCKAY | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living

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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...

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New Consensus Sees Stimulus Package As Worthy Step: NYT

nytimes.com | JACKIE CALMES and MICHAEL COOPER | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

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Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package...

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Colorado Unemployment Drops To 6.9 Percent In October

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 11.20.2009 | Denver

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DENVER — A shrinking labor force and about 1,000 new jobs have helped put Colorado's latest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October at...

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Your Network Is Your Net Worth

Jason Mannino | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

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Jason Mannino

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.

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Navigating the Jobs Crisis: 3 Strategies for Real Economic Recovery

Jim Carr | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

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Jim Carr

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.

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New York Unemployment Rate Rises To 9 Percent; Highest Since 1983

AP | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York

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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...

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Obama Faces Showdowns On Health Care, Afghanistan, Jobs

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will have scant time to rest up from his eight-day Asia trip. On Saturday, two days after his return to Wash...

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Overdue Mortgages And Foreclosures Reach Record Highs

CNBC | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business

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US mortgage delinquency rates and the percentage of loans that entered the foreclosure process jumped in the third quarter, with both reaching record ...

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Obama, China, and Wishful Thinking About American Jobs

Robert Reich | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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Robert Reich

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.

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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs -- Finally

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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Robert L. Borosage

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.

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