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• Unemployment Skyrockets: “U.S. now beating European unemployment rates”

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 641
  Unemployment is now higher in the U.S. than in Europe ,  reports the Washington Post .  “The official U.S. unemployment rate, reported last Friday, now stands at 10.2 percent,” compared to “9.7 percent” in Europe.   This is the highest rate in more than 26 years, and marks a huge change from the recent ...
  14 hours ago

• Unemployment Highest Since ‘83

  
  Hip Hop Honey Online Magazine — Authority: 499
  Times are still hard out there for individuals who are still looking for jobs: Unemployment surged from 9.8 percent in September to 10.2 percent last month, its highest level since 1983. At the same time, the economy lost 190,000 more jobs. That means employers have eliminated 7.3 million positions since the ...
  1 day ago

• Health Care: Not Close to Over

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  The fat lady hasn’t even started to warm up yet. The narrow 220-215 victory in the House on Saturday night was a step forward on the road to a government takeover of the health care system.  But as close and dramatic as that vote was, that was the easy part.  The Senate must still pass its version of ...
  1 day ago

• Broader unemployment rate hits 17.5% as companies get smarter about staff

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: Economy The weekly blizzard of economic statistics makes it tough to figure out what is really going on. But with a near-record number of people unemployed or underemployed, productivity at very high levels, and pay rising for the people who still have jobs, one conclusion seems to jump out: Companies ...
  2 days ago

• U.S. unemployment October 2009: UP to 10.2%

  
  Cheshire Cat Photo Blog (... said the Cat: 'we're all mad here....') — Authority: 128
  Well, we now have double-digit unemployment in the United States. According to the Employment Situation Summary (of the Bureau of Labor Statistics) and a radio broadcast that I heard this morning, we reached 10.2% unemployment in October 2009 , up from 9.8% in September 2009 . The radio broadcast also stated that 1 ...
  4 days ago

• Jobless rate at 10.2 percent, and its likely to stay high for months to come

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: Company News , Economy , People It finally happened. After months of anticipation and trepidation, the nations unemployment rate inched into double digits, reaching 10.2 percent in October, after employers cut 190,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported Friday. The increase topped analyst ...
  4 days ago

• Relief comes to the unemployed and to homebuyers

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: Economy , People Unemployed workers facing the loss of their benefits have a little less to worry about. On Thursday, a bill passed by lawmakers in the House of Representatives allowed for an extension of those benefits. The legislation also expands an $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit and ...
  5 days ago

• Unemployment Benefits Set To Expire

  
  Creating Online Success — Authority: 124
  Unemployment benefits are expiring for many that have lost their jobs.   Those with job claims that have been receiving unemployment compensation are running out a rapid pace, leaving many concerned over their imminent future.   Over 7,000 people are loosing their unemployment compensation everyday.     ...
  5 days ago

• Recession tales: Well never be the same

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 719
  Filed under: Recession Chances are you know someone who has lost their job since the recession started. The number of unemployed people across America has almost doubled from 7.6 million to 15.1 million since the recession started in December 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the ...
  1 week ago

• Surviving the Job Market in a Perilous Economy

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 448
  New Book Provides Guidance, Spiritual Inspiration and Practical Tips on Employment BLACKJACK, Mo., Oct. 30, 2009 — In an economy where unemployment rates are at an all-time high, advice on how to survive in the working world can be extremely valuable. In their new book, “Mr. and Mrs. Smith’s Employment Survival ...
  1 week ago

• Little Hope For Homebuilder Profits

  
  Refinance Home Mortgages — Authority: 431
  Homebuilder stocks took a tumble after an analyst said there was little reason to believe they would have profits before 2011. (...)
  1 week ago

• ‘A Million and One Ways to be One-in-a-Million’: New Book Shows Readers How to Separate from the Herd

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 448
  NEW YORK, Oct. 29, 2009 — Is there one recipe for success or is it all just the luck of the draw? How does one succeed in their career as well as in life? “A Million and One Ways to be One-in-a-Million” ( published by AuthorHouse ) is a set of lessons and examples of behavior that allow you to be different.  ...
  1 week ago

• US Airways Cutting Nearly Half of its Flights to Las Vegas, Eliminating Jobs

  
  EmploymentSpectator — Authority: 136
  US Airways, as part of an overall cost savings program that will eliminate 1000 jobs, has announced that it will reduce the number of flights into Las Vegas by 44 percent.  The carrier will also end non-stop service between Las Vegas and ten other cities.  With 6500 new hotel rooms set to open by the end of the ...
  1 week ago

• Unemployment Rates By State In The U.S.

  
  Prose Before Hos — Authority: 466
  Jobless recovery, in case you were wondering, is a tidy euphemism for “the rich are fine now, but you sure as hell aren’t”: From the Wall Street Journal : The jobless rate was flat or declined in 27 states [in September]. Michigan still has the highest unemployment rate by far at 15.3%, as the state ...
  2 weeks ago

• Important News - Oct. 22

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  1) 23 states report higher unemployment in September (AP) Unemployment rates rose last month in 23 states and fell in 19 as the economy struggled to create jobs in the early stages of recovery. 2) TARP report slams lack of transparency (USATODAY.com) In a scathing report out today, a government watchdog blasts ...
  2 weeks ago

• When Will this Credit Crunch End?

  
  GetStudentLoanNow.com — Authority: 143
  This credit crunch is starting to bite. Recognised companies are going to the wall unable to continue and compete in the current downturn. Rock solid firms are also folding after being unable to borrow the money that they have become accustomed to lending. Unemployment rates are going through the roof, doom and gloom ...
  3 weeks ago

• Credit Cards Newest Area of Potential Problems for Banks

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 612
  Banks and credit cards Banks have suffered through the recession with huge mortgage industry defaults, but a new fear that credit cards will do the same is looming. Ken Lewis, Bank of America CEO, stated he believes that despite the government’s $700 billion rescue program, it will be “an awful year” for ...
  3 weeks ago

• High unemployment rates are causing suffering in US families

  
  puritanpub.com — Authority: 158
  To this point the financial system has pretty much balanced out and hasn’t been dropping at such a mind boggling pace like it was last year. With the slump in the stock market and the conflict in Afganistan we are hurting pretty badly here in the United States. This is forcing consumers to stack up credit card ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Truth About Jobs That No One Wants to Tell You

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  In other words, ten percent unemployment really means twenty percent underemployment or anxious employment. All of which translates directly into late payments on mortgages, credit cards, auto and student loans, and loss of health insurance.
  5 weeks ago

• This is what caught my eye:

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  “More than a half a million people dropped out of the labor force, and the employment participation rate fell to 65.2%, the lowest in 23 years. The average duration of unemployment rose to 26.2 weeks” If you will accept that while people get discouraged, no one really drops out of the labor force (stops looking ...
  5 weeks ago

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