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Microsoft Asks Laid-Off Workers for Some Severance Back »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 9 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Perhaps Microsoft used Excel when they calculated the severance packages of some of the 1,400 workers they recently laid off. At any rate, apparently ...
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How to Lose Your Job »
Posted by: pacodecabra 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Humor
Losing a job is easy; losing it with style is another matter altogether. Anyone can call in sick every day, or sleep at their desk ...
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California Unemployment Rate Jumps To 10.1 Percent »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 9 months ago in Business & Finance
California's unemployment rate jumped to 10.1 percent in January, the state's first double-digit jobless reading in a quarter-century.
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Bankers and Their Victims »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 month ago in Business & Finance
Day two of the Showdown in Chicago, a three-day-long protest against big banks, began a bit dismally for The Nation. An email from American Bankers ...
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Obama Considers Major Expansion in Jobless Aid »
Posted by: MyWayOnNow 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
President-elect Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats are considering major expansions of government-assisted health care insurance and unemployment compensation as they begin intensive work this week ...
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Changing economy has many changing jobs »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 8 months, 1 week ago in News
The deep recession that began in 2007 is doing more than costing millions of jobs. It is transforming the economy and forcing many workers to ...
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Can You Get Unemployment Insurance After Being Fired? »
Posted by: pacodecabra 3 months ago in Business & Finance
As the unemployment rate in the US continues to skyrocket, the issue of unemployment benefits has become very important to a large number of people ...
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Layoffs Ease By More Than Expected In April, Unemployment Rises To 8.9% »
Posted by: TimALoftis 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
WASHINGTON - The torrid pace of job losses slowed to 539,000 in April, while the jobless rate rose to 8.9 percent, government data showed ...
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Unemployment in U.S. Probably Surpassed 9% in May »
Posted by: TimALoftis 5 months, 4 weeks ago in Business & Finance
May 31 (Bloomberg) -- Unemployment in the U.S. probably surpassed 9 percent in May for the first time in more than 25 years, underscoring forecasts ...
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New Jobless Claims Drop To Nine-Month Low »
Posted by: TimALoftis 1 month, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless insurance unexpectedly fell last week to the lowest level since January, according to a ...
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Paul Abrams: Pop Quiz: Under Reagan, What Was Peak Unemployment, How Long Before It Began Declining? »
Posted by: fsev41 3 weeks, 3 days ago in Political Opinion
As good students of history, you recognize that Reagan did not inherit the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And tax rates today are ...
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American Workforce Shifts to More Part-time Jobs »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 10 months ago in Business & Finance
In this economy, a job isn't just a job: It's a pastiche of part-time gigs, project contracts and fill-in freelance work. According to ...
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Jobless America »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
The unemployment rate is now 8.5%, which is very bad, and is up sharply from 5.1% a year ago. But just check out ...
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The Misery Index: Jobless rates by metro area »
Posted by: y_soitenly 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Where is unemployment getting worse fastest? Here's a look at the jobless rates in 372 metro areas and how they've changed in the ...
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Unemployment benefits safety net is fraying »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 9 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The government safety net designed to protect laid-off workers from financial catastrophe is falling short, leaving nearly half the 11.6 million jobless Americans without ...
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