1 hour ago by Caroline Ceniza-Levine

Image via Wikipedia In just the last few weeks, three big companies announced three big layoffs. Pepsi is cutting 8,700 jobs. American Airlines is looking to cut 13,000 jobs. Kraft is cutting 1,600. While the overall unemployment figures are trending down, layoffs are still a very real possibility. ...

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2 hours ago by citizenwells

NC job growth dismal, Greensboro News Record, February 11, 2012, Guilford County and North Carolina 9.9 percent unemployent, 446000 jobless statewide “the Times of the nineteenth of December had published the official forecasts of the output of various classes of consumption goods in the fourth quar ...

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6 hours ago by Nick Wright

George Mavrikos, World Federation of Trade Unions general secretary Speech to the presidential council of the WFTU meeting in South Africa 9 February 2012 We are meeting ten months after the historic congress of our organisation which strengthened the WFTU. Ten months after the 16th World Trade Unio ...

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6 hours ago by Conservative Wanderer

USA Today: President Obama’s proposed 2013 budget will forecast a $901 billion deficit for next year, falling far short of his goal to halve the deficit in four years. The budget, an outline of which was released by the White House Friday night, will show a higher deficit this year than in 2011, up ...

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7 hours ago by rjs

Fed's Balance Sheet Grows Slightly In Latest Week - The Fed's asset holdings in the week ended Feb. 8 were $2.931 trillion, up a bit from $2.927 trillion a week earlier, it said in a weekly report released Thursday. The Fed's holdings of U.S. Treasury securities fell to $1.661 trillion, down from $1 ...

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7 hours ago by Don Brown

Some of you may remember the IQ graph I use to sum up a concern about the future of our country. I am happy to report that at least one other person in the media “gets it”. First, credit where credit is due. I heard about it on Talk of the Nation. The Future Of America's Manufacturing Jobs ”And with ...

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8 hours ago by marfdrat

Scott Walker spoke at CPAC yesterday, and cited Ronald Reagan as his inspiration for serving in government. As governor of Wisconsin, he has led a real reformation for a state that was headed down the same crapper that Illinois is in now: In 2010, a survey of employers found that only 10% thought th ...

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9 hours ago

“A full 88 percent say they’re either making enough to suit their needs now, or expect to in the...

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9 hours ago

“What’s it like to be unemployed for more than a year? How many applications do you...

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10 hours ago by Will Collette

Been there, done that reiterated By Oswald Krell on RIFuture.org First, let me apologize that I’m not addressing this in the comments of the original post. I simply am not able to participate in the discussion on the threads. However, I am pleased to see the amount of intelligent discussion that too ...

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