Making local strategies work: building the evidence base (Local Economic and Employment Development (Leed))
bestchoice4jobs.co.uk (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Looking for a job is not a pleasant experience. Its even worse when you do not currently have one. Money is short, unemployment benefits are never enough, but the bills keep coming in. The chances are, if you are unemployed, your spending will eat into your savings. It could be worse than this, you may have to sell some things to pay for life's basic necessities.
En Tequila Es Verdad (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Overcoming not one, not two, but three - count 'em, three - Con filibusters . That's what it takes. Why Cons pull this kind of shit when the jobless numbers are this horrible is beyond me. Are they telling us they want to lose in 2010? Is that it? Because if it is, I'm more than happy to ensure that happens. And so are - lemme see - 200,000 unemployed Americans who lost their benefits while the Cons...
Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Indian Express Why won't Obama give you a job? Washington Post By Alec macgillis To hear President Obama tell it, he's been busy creating jobs since taking office. The $787 billion stimulus package, he said last winter, would "save or create 3.5 million jobs." The White House is touting reports from recipients of ... Analysis: 10 percent jobless is Obama's new world The Associated Press...
Saber Point (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The official unemployment rate stands at 10.2%. Pretty terrible, but it's even worse than that. The actual unemployment rate includes not only people looking for work, but people working part time jobs that want to work full time and workers otherwise underemployed. The New York Times explains: With the release of the jobs report on Friday, the broadest measure of unemployment and underemployment tracked...
Adam Smith Institute Blog (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
On my way to work this week I sighted a number of posters stuck up around Victoria Street. Advertising Socialism 2009, these flyers proudly bear the slogan “Capitalism in Crisis: Marx was Right”. An remarkable claim. A look down the road shows hundreds of commuters striding to their destinations. Everywhere shops are opening, and little cafes are overflowing. The inescapable truth is that...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The engineer accused of fatally shooting one employee and wounding five others at the firm where he once worked is "very mentally ill" and crumbled under the stress of his divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment, his attorney said Saturday.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Nuremberg- The German employment agency will need to plug a funding hole of 16 billion euros (24 billion dollars) in 2010, an agency spokeswoman said on Saturday, confirming a media report. Job losses resulting from the economic crisis meant the agen...
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Report: 237 millionaires in Congress - Erika Lovley - POLITICO.com : "As Washington reels from the news of 10.2 percent unemployment, the Center for Responsive Politics is out with a new report describing the wealth of members of Congress. Among the highlights: Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven members of Congress are millionaires. That’s 44 percent of the body – compared to about 1 percent...
MyDD (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Earlier in my post on US Unemployment Reaching a 26-Year High , I said this about the U-6: Among all groups, the U6 underemployment rate -- a broader measure of the jobs shortfall which includes people whose hours have been cut, those working part-time for lack of full-time work, and those who have given up looking -- is 17.5 percent. This is the number that I prefer to use as the real unemployment...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON - It hurts more to be unemployed now than the last time the jobless rate hit 10 percent.Americans have more than triple the debt they had in 1982, and less than half the savings. They spend 10 weeks longer off the job. And a bigger share of them have no health insurance, leaving them one medical emergency away from financial ruin.For these reasons, the unemployed are more vulnerable today...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly jumped to 10.2 percent last month, a 26-1/2-year high, adding to pressure on the Obama administration to do more to tackle unemployment even as signs of recovery mount.
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years: “The guy on the street is going to ask, ‘What recovery'’ ” said Stuart G. Hoffman, chief economist at the PNC Financial Services Group in Pittsburgh. “The job market is still in reverse.”Obama signs bill to extend unemployment benefits: It doesn’t help people who will run out of benefits in 2010 –...
Villainous Company (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
As of this morning, the Marine team was holding onto the lead by about a $7000 margin. But as you can see, Army is closing fast! We are doing great, but need to keep up the pressure during our sprint to the finish line! Let me remind you that the Marines have never won this competition. I can't imagine a better tribute to our Marine heroes than for us to remind everyone why the Marines are America's...
Safehaven (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Investors Are Wise To Remain Flexible: The bearish spin on unemployment is obvious. The bullish spin is weak employment means low interest rates which is good for asset prices. Another possible spin by the bulls is "sell the rumor ...
Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Rosenberg: “the mother of all jobless recoveries” While I see the job numbers as pretty much what was expected, the data do make clear that we are seeing a major jobless recovery. David Rosenberg has a piece out today that goes right to the heart of the issue: All we can say is that if the overwhelming consensus is correct that the recession is behind us, then what we have on our hands...
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vivian09 | 15/10/2009
The short experience to date since the introduction of the “target-free approach” in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar , Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh has been disappointing. Acceptance levels were less than 50% of the corresponding period in the previous year when targets were in vogue. On the other hand, such a drastic change in acceptance has not occurred in the progressive southern states. Thus,...
traimi | 29/09/2009
For about $72 million, Mitsubishi Corp. was able to buy 40 percent of Rolf’s Mitsubishi car distribution business in Russia. Rolf is Russia’s largest foreign car dealer and was hit hard by declining sales in Russia. Reasons for the 54% drop in sales in August year-on-year include the fall of the ruble, lack of consumer credit, and rising unemployment.
imrozz | 26/08/2009
The recession is being blamed for the increase in unemployment and many people are finding themselves in debt and with little or no income. Lots of companies are closing down and finding a job in such an economic climate is difficult. A website is a one mean to start an online business. A website is a vital marketing tool for business. The visual aspect of a website must be attractive and grab the...
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