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• WSJ Front Page: Grim Milestone as Jobless Rate Tops 10%

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  The unemployment rate last month soared above 10% for the first time since the early 1980s, a milestone likely to weigh on consumer confidence and stir new efforts in Washington to spur job creation. Some 558,000 people joined the ranks of the jobless in October, sending the rate to 10.2% and the tally of officially ...
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• Innocent Bystanders: The Employment Picture and the Current Administration’s Stimulus Defense

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  The President and his economic team have claimed that the plan is working as intended , that they’re on track to save the original goal of 3.6 million jobs, but somehow, despite practically drowning in success, we’re going to have to live with high unemployment for years to come . Oh, and that everything ...
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• U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  The American unemployment rate surged to 10.2 percent in October, its highest level in 26 years, as the economy lost another 190,000 jobs, the Labor Department reported Friday. The jump into the realm of double-digit joblessness — from 9.8 percent in September — provided a sobering reminder that, despite the ...
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• Battered Company Says ‘No’ To Job Cuts

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  The Hypertherm factory sits hidden in the woods not far from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.... ...late last year, production of ships and cars pretty much ground to a halt. And sales of cutting systems at Hypertherm dropped 50 percent. How many workers did the company lay off? None. It put them to work doing ...
  4 days ago

• Brooksley Born: Responsible, Accountable, American

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  Politics has a way of reminding us that the conventional wisdom, while widely held, is not always wise.David CarrNew York TimesWashingtonThe Making Of An American LegendAs a nation, we’ve strayed from the values of our ancestors.  Shared interests have been supplanted by private interests. Being responsible for ...
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• Have You Frozen Your Credit Yet?

  
  HarvestingDollars — Authority: 113
  In speaking with friends it still surprises me how many have yet to freeze their credit reports. I know it seems like a bit of a hassle, but it’s not and the protection it provides is remarkable. It will take you less than 30 minutes and will cost $30 per person to fill out the forms and mail in your credit freeze ...
  5 days ago

• The Differences Between A Fraud Alert and Credit Freeze

  
  Credit Creators — Authority: 113
  The increase in identity theft has given birth to a lot of new tools consumers can use to protect their credit. Two of those options are fraud alerts and or credit freezes. t these are two VERY different things. In this article, let us discuss what are the differences between a credit freeze and a fraud alert and how ...
  5 days ago

• Michigan warned 20% cut might be next

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  Gov. Jennifer Granholm warned Tuesday of a possible 20 percent cut in state spending next year, a draconian step after billions in cuts since 2003 already have dented police and fire services, pushed schools toward insolvency and reduced oversight of prison inmates. The request from Granholm is a further blow to ...
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• David Broder: Trouble ahead for Democrats?

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  Despite White House efforts to discount the importance of the loss of the only two governorships on the off-year ballot, especially in New Jersey, where Obama had campaigned heavily for embattled Gov. Jon Corzine, the implications were clear to other Democrats. Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee, a leader of the ...
  5 days ago

• WSJ: Business Bankruptcy Filings Increased 7% in October

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  Business bankruptcy filings jumped in October, reversing two consecutive months of declining commercial filings and indicating that bankruptcies could continue to rise as the economy struggles to stabilize.... "The margin for success is so thin that any financial hiccup" could cause a business to file for bankruptcy, ...
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• California to withhold a bigger chunk of paychecks

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  Starting Sunday, cash-strapped California will dig deeper into the pocketbooks of wage earners -- holding back 10% more than it already does in state income taxes just as the biggest shopping season of the year kicks into gear. Technically, its not a tax increase, even though it may feel like one when your next ...
  1 week ago

• Democrats Push for Plan to Cut Deficit

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  Faced with anxiety in financial markets about the huge federal deficit and the potential for it to become an electoral liability for Democrats, the White House and Congressional leaders are weighing options for narrowing the gap, including a bipartisan commission that could force tax increases and spending cuts. But ...
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• Salena Zito: Mood Sours Towards Both Parties

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  What does all of this mean? Populism is on the rise and conservatism is gaining steam, perhaps at its own expense. (If Hoffman loses in New York, it almost ensures that the Northeast will be almost exclusively Democrat-blue territory). A sour mood exists among people, with close-to-10-percent unemployment, ...
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• Joseph Stiglitz: Death Cometh for the Greenback

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  For the past eight years, the dollar has increasingly become less revered. Its value has been volatile. As the rest of the world saw the United States struggling with a failing war and soaring budget deficits, many who had large dollar holdings began to reduce those reserves (or increase them less than they otherwise ...
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• Recession Drives Surge in Youth Runaways

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  Over the past two years, government officials and experts have seen an increasing number of children leave home for life on the streets, including many under 13. Foreclosures, layoffs, rising food and fuel prices and inadequate supplies of low-cost housing have stretched families to the extreme, and those pressures ...
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• If your data was breached, your ID theft risk soars

  
  Ask Liz Weston — Authority: 467
  photo credit: Archie McPhee Seattle Some critics disparage the database breach laws that force companies to reveal when your private personal information has been compromised. Only a small percentage of such stolen information is used to commit theft, they say. Except if you’re a victim of a database breach, ...
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• ID Theft – Here We Go Again

  
  Eliminate The Muda! — Authority: 495
  photo by Don Hankins Would you find it odd if a company that allowed your personal information to be stolen would then want you to freely give your Social Security, address, date of birth and other personal details over the internet? Have you stayed at a Radisson Hotel in the past year? If so you may be at risk of ...
  2 weeks ago

• SMH: Jesus saves, but shattered Sydney Anglicans regret not having that luxury

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  The shaken Anglican Archbishop of Sydney admits he has wondered whether God had decided to punish his diocese. Peter Jensen confessed yesterday to being grief-stricken by the size of the dioceses $160 million financial loss and called on his faithful not be panicked or paralysed by the money crisis but to turn to God ...
  3 weeks ago

• Credit Freeze: a Cold Day for Consumer Protection?

  
  Got Shares? (GotShares.com) — Authority: 129
  A security credit freeze is one way to achieve peace of mind instead of worrying about identity theft. I just tried to extend a credit freeze and replace a lost PIN. I forgot my PIN, so I needed a new one in case I wanted new credit. I contacted all three credit bureaus-- Equifax (EFX), Transunion , and ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Local Paper Editorial—Wanted: A jobs recovery

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  The inherent contradiction in the term "jobless recovery" continues to cast a shadow on overdue good economic news. The Dow Jones Industrial average closed above 10,000 Wednesday for the first time in more than a year. But the national unemployment rate of 9.8 percent in September was the highest in more than a ...
  3 weeks ago

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