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Losing Your Job and Learning What You're Made Of

Mika Brzezinski | Posted 12.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Fired, Motherhood, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Working-Motherhood, Getting Fired, Working Mothers, Business News
Mika Brzezinski

When you walk out the door after being fired, it's over. No cell phone. No email address. Nothing. Stripped of your link to the outside world. I wore my "fired" label on my forehead, having been dumped by CBS at the height of my career.

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Seasonal Jobs Filled By Laid-Off Bankers, Professionals

AP | CHRISTOPHER LEONARD and MAE ANDERSON | Posted 12.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Seasonal-Employment, Employment, Business News

Mara Proctor used to design limestone hearths and columns for luxury homes near Kansas City, drawing on her college education and six years of trainin...

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Manufacturing Counties Lead Surprise Job Comeback: AP

Posted 12.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Manufacturing, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Manufacturing Jobs, Business News

CONOVER, N.C. (MIKE BAKER -- AP) - As record numbers of orders flow through Legacy Furniture Group's manufacturing plant, workers toil between towers ...

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Arthur Delaney

State Unemployment Commissioners Implore Congress To Reauthorize Benefits Extensions

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Employment Law Project, Unemployment, Unemployment Benefits, Unemployment Insurance, Extended Benefits, Politics News

Labor commissioners and unemployment-agency officials from several states joined a coalition of labor and advocacy groups Monday to implore Congress t...

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White House Jobs Summit: Digging Out of Unemployment Cycles

Meizhu Lui | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Economic Recovery, Unemployment, Race, People of Color, Jobs Summit, Politics News
Meizhu Lui

We can get the economy to work and work for all of us, by putting the American people to work. We're shovel ready!

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The True Meaning of 2012

John Perkins | Posted 12.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Unemployment, Wall Street, 2012 Election, Hoodwinked, John Perkins, Financial Crisis, 2012, Business News
John Perkins

Next time you pass by 2012 on a theater marquee, try to reflect on the true message symbolized by those numbers. The real message is a call to action based on the knowledge that we can transform ourselves.

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Bill O'Reilly Rates Obama's Presidency

abcnews.com | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Obama Presidency, A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, Obama, Books, Bill O'Reilly Obama, Bill O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly Good Morning America, Barack Obama, Unemployment, Afghanistan, Fox News, Healthcare, Books News

Bill O'Reilly was on Good Morning America this morning to promote the paperback edition of his book "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity", and took on the ...

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Colorado Unemployment Rate Will Rise In 2010, But Not As Sharply As 2009: CU Economists

AP | CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 12.07.2009 | Denver

Read More: Colorado Jobs, Richard Wobbekind, University of Colorado Study, Cu, Unemployment, CU Study, Colorado Unemployment, Colorado Unemployment Rate, Denver News

DENVER — University of Colorado economists expect the state to add jobs in the second half of next year, but they still predict the state will l...

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Two Common Sense Ways to Improve the Economy

Robert A. Iger | Posted 12.06.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Unemployment, Us-Visas, Online Piracy, Travel, US Economy, Internet Piracy, Obama Jobs Summit, Obama Stimulus Travel, Los Angeles News
Robert A. Iger

Curbing piracy and making it easier to visit our country are straightforward and immediate ways to spur long-term job growth. The decline in foreign visitors has probably cost the country around 245,000 jobs. Piracy has cost another 375,000.

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Obama To Promote New Job Ideas During Tuesday Speech

AP | WILL LESTER | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Deficit, Infrastructure, Unemployment, Green Jobs, Economy, Jobs, Obama, Approval Numbers, Unemployment Rate, Stimulus, Recession, Tarp, Politics News

WASHINGTON — In his latest job creation effort, President Barack Obama is trying to find practical and politically feasible ways of spurring hir...

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Left, Right & Center: Afghanistan, Unemployment, Tiger, the White House Crashers

Huff Radio | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Unemployment, Afganistan Troop Increase, White House Crashers, Tiger Woods, Politics News
Huff Radio

President Obama made his long-awaited decision to increase the number of US troops in Afghanistan by 30,000. Will it be his undoing?

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Analysis: Good News on Jobs, But Will it Last?

Lakshman Achuthan | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve, Trend Rate of Growth, Ben Bernanke, Unemployed, Unemployment, Recession, US Economy, Business News
Lakshman Achuthan

The "great moderation" of business cycles once extolled by many economists, Ben Bernanke, is history. The trend rate of growth is shriveling. In other words, business cycles are back with a vengeance.

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GOP Obama Pen Pal Goes To Jobs Summit

The Orange County Register | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Jobs, Obama Pen Pall O'neill, Unemployment, Economy, Obama Republican Pen Pal, Joni O'neill Obama Pen Pal, Obama Gop Pen Pal, Obama Pen Pal, Obama Joni O'neill, Joni O'neill, Politics News

Joni O'Neill was in her Mission Viejo flower shop late one night, watching the news, when she saw a story critical of President Barack Obama. She s...

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NYC Economic Outlook Brighter Than Before: Report

AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 12.04.2009 | New York

Read More: Financial Crisis, Unemployment, Wall Street, Economy, New York City, New York, Economic Crisis, New York News

NEW YORK — New York City's fiscal picture is brighter than it has been in a long time, according to a new report that projects fewer job losses,...

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

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Market, U6 Numbers, Job Numbers, Unemployment, Jobless Rate, Unemployment Rate, Unemployment November, Economy, Department of Labor, Recession, Business News

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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Arthur Delaney

Former Employers More Likely To Allege Misconduct By Laid-Off Workers Than In Past Recessions

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, Recession, Unemployment Benefits, Business News

Laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits today are almost twice as likely as their counterparts during the recession of the 1980s to be accused ...

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Jobs 1.0: Creating Jobs Without Busting The Budget

James Adler | Posted 12.03.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Bidding Procedures, Infrastructue Jobs, Unemployment, Extended Unemployment Insurance, Jobs, White House Conference on Jobs, Welfare, Economic Stimulus, Economic Recovery, Tanf, New Deal, Job Creation, Los Angeles News
James Adler

The experience of the New Deal is instructive. Using stimulus money, LA County has designed a program to create 10,000 new jobs paying $10 per hour for 40 hours per week.

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The American Worker: An Endangered Species

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 12.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Jobs, Endangered Species, Clean Energy, Unemployment, Workers, Green Jobs, President Obama, Green News
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

American workers, and by extension, American families, are in a fight for survival -- one that requires as much of us as does the fight to protect any endangered species.

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States May Shed Another Million Jobs

Aaron Glantz | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Jobs, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Obama Jobs Summit, Jobs Summit, Recession, Business News
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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Addressing Race at the White House Jobs Summit

Cynthia Gordy | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Keith Ellison, White House, Jobs, Unemployment, Robert Gibbs, Race, African Americans, Politics News
Cynthia Gordy

Young black men between the ages of 16 and 24 who are facing joblessness at 34.5 percent. It didn't strike me that the issue ranks particularly high on the White House radar.

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Shahien Nasiripour

No Easy Jumpstart To Get Small Business Hiring Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Small Business, Lending, Employment, Main Street, Jobs, Unemployment, Bailout, Loans, Job, Financial Crisis, Hiring, Banks, Wall Street, Job Creation, Bank Regulators, Small Businesses, Transparency, Business News

As 130 business, labor and thought leaders converge on the White House today to discuss ways to create more jobs, the nation's main engine for job cre...

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New Jobless Claims Fall For The Fifth Straight Week, Claims Hit 457K

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Unemployment Benefits, Department of Labor, Jobless Claims, New Jobless Claims, Job Market, Business News

WASHINGTON — The tally of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits fell unexpectedly for the fifth straight week, a hopeful sign tha...

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Jobs Summit: Good Ideas to Get Us Moving

Robert Holleyman | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis, Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Jobs Summit, Politics News
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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Obama's Jobs Summit: Focus Turns To Putting People Back To Work

AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Market, Unemployment, Jobless Rate, Stimulus Package, Jobs Summit, Economy, Obama, Joe Biden, Job Creation, Eric Cantor, Business News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama promised at a White House jobs forum on Thursday to take "every responsible step to accelerate job creation,...

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Americans Don't Have Jobs, Will Ben Keep His?

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Unemployment, Jobs Summit, Politics News
Dylan Ratigan

Nothing would more clearly display the inability of our leaders to deal with the terrible state of the economy than easily reconfirming Ben Bernanke for another round on the same day that they hold a "job summit".

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