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• Initial Claims for Unemployment up by 1000, Better than Expected

  
  EmploymentSpectator — Authority: 133
  The number of new claims for unemployment edged up slightly last week to 434,000.  Analysts had predicted a much larger jump, to 447,000.  The one week rise followed two straight weeks of declines, and the four week average, considered to be a more reliable indicator of trends in the job market, continued it’s 18 ...
  16 hours ago

• Small service firms added jobs in December

  
  Jan Norman on Small Business — Authority: 127
  Small private service businesses added 21,000 jobs in December, the first uptick since December 2008, according to the ADP National Employment Report released this morning. Those gains were not enough to offset continued job cuts by large service employers (-9,000 jobs) and goods-producing companies of all sizes. ...
  1 day ago

• Where Will The Jobs Be This Decade?

  
  The Work Buzz — Authority: 474
  Happy New Year, Work Buzzer’s! I’m back from a nice break over the holidays, and I don’t know about you, but it’s hard getting back into the swing of things. Call me crazy though — I am almost grateful to be back in some type of routine…almost. While thinking about what I wanted to write about today, my ...
  2 days ago

• A LOOK INTO AMERICAS LOST DECADE

  
  THE MARK MARTINEZ SHOW: Talk Radio for Liberals and Real Conservatives — Authority: 124
  No matter how you slice it, the aughts - or the first decade of the 21st century - were an economic bust for Middle America. In fact, the Washington Posts Neil Irwin called it the " lost decade " (click on graph to enlarge). How bad was it? Whatever jobs we thought had been created were wiped out by ...
  3 days ago

• It Was A Bad Decade For Movies, Too

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  For the sake of posterity, here’s the Washington Post’s New Year’s Day killer “ Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers ,” by Neil Irwin. The two most brutal paragraphs: There has been zero net job creation since December 1999. No previous decade going back to the 1940s had job growth of less ...
  3 days ago

• Obama’s Completes the Liberal Hat Trick

  
  Big Government — Authority: 819
  In hockey, rough sport that it is, it is rare that one player scores three goals in one game.  They call that a Hat Trick.  In the game of politics, Obama now has managed the Liberal Hat Trick in the minds of the American Public.  In November, he may just find out how rough politics can be. Of course, many ...
  3 days ago

• Straight Ahead: First Key Economic Data Point of the New Year -- December 2009 Jobs Report

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 658
  Filed under: Politics , Recession The new year 2010 wastes no time in offering investors a "data point of consequence" -- the U.S. Labor Departments December 2009 monthly nonfarm payroll report, commonly known as the jobs report, scheduled to be released Friday January 8 at 8:30 a.m. EST. Its a data point of ...
  3 days ago

• January 1, 2010

  
  Rising in Phoenix — Authority: 128
  “Eat, Pray, Love” Author Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk. http://www.ted.com ...
  1 week ago

• Are green college majors worth the hype?

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 691
  Filed under: College , Green According to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, 100 majors, minors and certificate programs were created at American colleges and universities in 2009, with focuses on topics like renewable energy and green technology. According to the USA ...
  1 week ago

• Tharman: We want private investment, not tax hike

  
  Blowin' In The Wind — Authority: 115
  Singapore Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam acknowledges Singapore has an unemployment problem. That is why Singapore doesnt want to raise income taxes --- "certainly not corporate income taxes" --- because "our key objective should be to see private investment grow, as the basis for long-term growth", he tells ...
  1 week ago

• Californias Gov. Schwarzenegger Likely to Seek More Federal Assistance to Cut Deficit

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 658
  Filed under: Politics , Recession California update: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) is expected to ask President Obama to ease federal mandates and minimums on social programs to save the state up to $8 billion. The action is needed because California, which has already cut programs to eliminate previous ...
  1 week ago

• toDwI’ma’ qoS yItIvqu’!: Nota Bene #2009-46

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 492
  “To be truly free, and truly to appreciate its freedom, a society must be literate.” Who said it? The answer is at the end of this post. Now on to the links! … “The class war is over— working people lost ” … “We’ve had issues with them hiding the mail ” … “Whatever happened to kids spending ...
  1 week ago

• Geithner Expects U.S Job Growth by Spring

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 658
  Filed under: Forecasts , Employees , Recession U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said hes expecting net, monthly U.S. job growth to resume by spring. "Most economists would say that, by the spring, well have positive job growth," Geithner said in an interview Wednesday on ABCs "Good Morning America," ...
  2 weeks ago

• Latte Links (12/19)

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 136
  Some miscellany for your weekend… UK Guardian: Barack Obama’s speech disappoints and fuels frustration at Copenhagen (HT: Don Suber, who said he should have listened to Palin ) The Washington Post: With Nelson on board, health-care bill could pass by Christmas (nice to see politicians can still be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Let’s Be Frank, Mr. Vice President: The Stimulus Failed

  
  Big Government — Authority: 819
  Today, the State of Georgia welcomes Vice President Joe Biden for an update on the administration’s so-called stimulus bill. With national unemployment sitting today at 10%, and worse in Georgia, the White House’s credibility on stimulus success is dubious at best. Yet as proper manners would dictate, we owe the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Canada under the gun at Copenhagen climate change conference

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 147
  Canada once a leader in environmental movement now a laggard CTV video of demonstrations and negotiations – “Canada under the gun”Canada has heritage in the environmental movement that is being tarnished by the decades of neglect that followed the formation of Greenpeace in 1971. The current government is an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Where the job market will open up first

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  Worrying about competition for talent probably isn’t your biggest concern right now. But it’s coming, especially in some industries and for some job titles. The U.S. Labor Department released its report on 10-year projections for job and industry growth. Here’s what’s in the report. First, as just about ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama touting home energy efficiency program (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 180
  AP - Hoping to jump-start his plans for job growth, President Barack Obama is pushing Congress to pass incentives for homeowners who retrofit their homes to make them more energy-efficient.
  3 weeks ago

• The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession

  
  The Ridgewood Blog — Authority: 142
  For feds, more get 6-figure salaries Average pay $30,000 over private sector By Dennis Cauchon USA TODAY http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20091211/1afedpay11_st.art.htm?loc=interstitialskip The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gov-Elect John Kasich?

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 139
  Ted Strickland’s lackluster term as Ohio’s governor appears to be headed for a screeching halt according to Scott Rasmussen’s latest polling : Unemployment in Ohio has jumped to 10.5%, the state is wrestling with an $851 million budget shortfall, and Governor Ted Strickland has proposed delaying a tax cut ...
  3 weeks ago

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