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28 Aug 2010 18:00

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Biz: Web reinvention at USA Today means lots of layoffs

  • 9% of the paper’s jobs (out of 1,500) will go away source

06 Aug 2010 11:30

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U.S.: Wanna see a pretty depressing number? Click this thang here

  • 71,000 freaking jobs added in July source

26 Jul 2010 20:56

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U.S.: Bell, California: Home to a bunch of rich bureaucrats, apparently

  • 36,664 the population of Bell, California
  • $787k the amount Bell’s city manager Robert Rizzo makes yearly, which is very high for the city’s size – he’s also not the only one, either
  • $0k the amount the city’s embarrassed mayor, Oscar Hernandez, will make for the rest of his term – and he’s not running for re-election source

22 Jun 2010 10:51

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U.S.: Illegal immigrants should avoid Arizona, random Nebraska town

  • what Fremont, Nebraska residents voted to block illegal immigrants from renting property or getting jobs.
  • why Because they felt that federal immigration laws had not gone far enough to regulate it. source

03 Jun 2010 10:37

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Biz: It’s the Census, stupid: Jobs show serious improvement in May

  • 513,000 the increase in non-farm payrolls in May, helped by the Census
  • five number of consecutive months the job market has improved source

02 Jun 2010 22:14

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Politics: Joe Sestak may have had a buddy in the employment line

  • Mr. Messina also suggested three positions that might be available to me were I not pursuing the Senate race,” Romanoff wrote in a statement. “He added that he could not guarantee my appointment to any of these positions. At no time was I promised a job, nor did I request Mr. Messina’s assistance in obtaining one.
  • A statement from Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff • Making him look like Joe Sestak, round two. Romanoff discussed working with the deputy chief of staff if he chose not to run for the Senate, but he chose to stay in the race. The wording of this suggests that the administration did nothing wrong, but the devil’s in the details. Oh, and what fun details to dig through! One piece of advice for nugget-diggers: Avoid Rahm Emanuel’s socks when digging through Obama’s seemingly smelly dirty laundry. source

05 May 2010 09:48

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Biz: FINALLY. Private companies are starting to hire people again

  • 32,000 new private sector jobs in April source
 

21 Apr 2010 11:01

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U.S.: North Dakota has lots of jobs. But why is homelessness up?

  • 19% increase in homelessness from 2008 to 2009 source
  • » But why? The reason might surprise you – as will the deceptiveness of the number above. In 2008, 832 people were homeless. In 2009, 987 were. That’s a far cry from your average major city. The state has 4 percent unemployment, so there are plenty of jobs. But there aren’t enough homes for people to live in, causing some to make do, for example, in cars parked in Wal-Mart parking lots. There are waiting lists for homes in the state. How crazy is that?

24 Feb 2010 10:18

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U.S.: Generation gap: Millennials aren’t getting much full-time work yet

  • 41% of Millennials have full-time employment, which is super-low
  • 61% of Generation X members can say the same about themselves
  • 51% of hippies, er, Baby Boomers still boomin’ at work source

07 Jan 2010 08:53

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U.S.: Looking for a job? The U.S. Census could use your help

  • 1.2 million people are getting hired to count heads source