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  1. Unemployment: government hopes for slowdown in jobless rise


    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority 986
    Analysts said unemployment had risen at a much more subdued pace in recent months than they had expected given the […] ongoing contraction in the economy Ministers were today braced for the final set of unemployment figures of the year […] expected to increase to around 2.5 million, but the government will be keen to see the figure for youth unemployment, which has
    1 week ago

  2. Leonard Zeskind: Unemployment, Race and Crimes by White-ists


    The Huffington Post — Authority 952
    Unemployment, Race and Crimes by White-ists by Leonard Zeskind Unemployment rates tell us some things about how the […] levels of disparity by race. And they have told us next to nothing about any link between unemployment and violence by […] an interactive graph, so that users can pinpoint unemployment rates by month since March 1973--that being the first month
    2 weeks ago

  3. Nancy Duff Campbell: Unemployed? Happy Holidays: Now Youre On Your Own


    The Huffington Post — Authority 952
    Heres a sobering thought for our holiday season: One million workers will become ineligible for unemployment benefits […] in January 2010 unless Congress reauthorizes the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)s unemployment insurance […] act. One group of jobless workers is especially vulnerable: single mothers. The unemployment data released earlier this
    1 week ago

  4. Former Employers More Likely To Allege Misconduct By Laid-Off Workers …


    The Huffington Post — Authority 952
    Laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits today are almost twice as likely as their counterparts during the […] recession of the 1980s to be accused of misconduct by their former employers. From 1980 to 1982, when the unemployment rate […] crept toward 10 percent, employers told state unemployment insurance offices that laid-off workers seeking benefits had been
    3 weeks ago

  5. With Inflation Low and Unemployment High, Bernanke Prioritizes Fighting …


    Matthew Yglesias — Authority 794
    prioritizing inflation-fighting over unemployment-fighting, people always pop up in my inbox or the comments section to say there […] . Bernanke thinks there’s something he could do that would probably reduce unemployment but might make it more difficult to […] . Unemployment is high in large part because the policymakers with primary responsibility for achieving full employment don’t want to
    1 week ago

  6. Unemployment and Excess Capacity


    Economist's View — Authority 665
    The excess capacity series is defined as 100 - capacity utilization rate . The unemployment series is the civilian […] unemployment rate . The excess capacity series (red line) peaked in June of this year, and has been moving downward ever since […] . If the pattern in the two most recent recessions holds, those in 1990-91 and 2001, the peak in the unemployment rate will
    1 day ago

  7. Obama Signs Defense Bill, Extends Unemployment Benefits By Two Months


    Progress Illinois - — Authority 570
    extending both unemployment benefits and COBRA coverage by two months. While those on the verge of exhausting their jobless […] ( H.R. 2847 ) -- passed by the House last week -- which would extend unemployment aid and the COBRA subsidy by an […] unemployment insurance benefits. Without the extension, up to 10,000 Illinois workers each week would have exhausted their
    3 days ago

  8. Japan Unemployment Up, Deflation Grows In November


    FOXNews.com — Authority 926
    Japan Unemployment Up, Deflation Grows In November
    1 day ago

  9. Black men hit hard by unemployment in Milwaukee


    The Washington Post — Authority 948
    checked all the right boxes. But there he was last week on his way to cash an unemployment check -- $388. He ran the numbers
    2 days ago

  10. Anat Shenker-Osorio: Feminomics: On Botox, Motherhood, and…


    The Huffington Post — Authority 952
    women out of the workforce will be the proposed solution for curbing unemployment. It will sound better than this, of course
    2 days ago