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The Same Old Song »
Posted by: Beau7890 10 months ago in Political News
What's up with the Republicans? Have they no sense that their policies have sent the country hurtling down the road to ruin? Are they ...
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IBM layoffs reaching 3000, union group claims »
Posted by: engineer 10 months ago in Business & Finance
Alliance@IBM , an IBM employee organization that is not supported by the company, has reported more than 2800 employees have been laid off from IBM ...
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565K new jobless claims, lowest level since Jan. - Yahoo! News »
Posted by: mpchekuri 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
The number of newly laid-off workers filing initial claims for jobless benefits last week fell to lowest level since early January, largely due to changes ...
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Workers clobbered by relentless layoffs »
Posted by: STONERS 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Cost-cutting employers are resorting to even bigger layoffs as they scramble to survive the recession, feeding insecurities among those who still have jobs and those ...
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Tech's Laid Off Legions Return to Their Long-Lost Passions »
Posted by: IsraGeek 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Hutchins isn't surveying a crowd of boozing hipsters, but rather a mass of over 300 recently laid-off workers from the Bay Area's technology ...
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Mass Unemployment: An Epidemic of Social Murder »
Posted by: Tumultuous 2 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
Unemployment quite literally kills.
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Millions of people out of work represents an epidemic of what 19th century philosopher Friedrich Engels called "social murder."
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Job hunts grow harder as recession deepens »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
The number of laid-off workers who are continuing to draw unemployment checks has jumped to the highest in more than a quarter-century and is likely ...
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Yahoo to cut hundreds of jobs: source »
Posted by: WikiMap 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Yahoo Inc is preparing to lay off several hundred workers in the first round of cuts since Carol Bartz became chief executive in January, a ...
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Microsoft Swings Its Axe; 5,000 Jobs to Be Cut »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 10 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
Yes, Virginia, it's true. First rumored in early January, but at 3x the number, there are indeed layoffs happening at Microsoft. The number set ...
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Recession snapshot: Facts, attitudes, analysis »
Posted by: engineer 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Quick economic facts on jobs, education, housing, health care, debt, income
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Figures include jobless, school layoffs, underwater mortgages, wage cuts
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GM and America's Downsizing »
Posted by: zaph22 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The trouble with the whole "Nixon goes to China" theory -- which is grounded in the calculus that big progress is made when a politician goes ...
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About 500 FedEx workers in Memphis are laid off today - 1000 corporate-wide »
Posted by: bubba2 7 months, 4 weeks ago in Business & Finance
FedEx laid off 1,000 workers today, including 500 in the Memphis area, as part of a previously announced plan to slash costs due to ...
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Laugh --- and Learn --- While You Cry, with Layoff: The Game »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 8 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
The recession and its toll can be seen every time new unemployment figures come out. And a new game by Tiltfactor's Layoff: The Game ...
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Tech-Ex: New Widget Allows You to Be Depressed About Layoffs, Constantly »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 9 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
After two weeks of testing, Layoff Tracker was released formally on Monday. It's a widget you can add to your website to constantly remind ...
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Flight Sim Layoffs Confirmed, But MS Still "Committed to Flying Games" »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 10 months ago in Science & Technology
Microsoft on Friday confirmed that indeed, they have axed the ACES Studio, developers of the Flight (and Train ) Simulator game, but despite that, the company ...
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