Joblessness

Life & Happiness With Laura Rowley: Bouncing Back From Unemployment

Laura Rowley | Posted 12.19.2011 | Fifty

Read More: Layoffs, Long-Term Joblessness, Credit Cards, Overdue Bills, Pink Slip, Joblessness, Credit Card Debt, Unemployment, Getting Out of Debt, Video, Fifty News

Hard-hit by layoffs during the recession, Laurie and her husband drained their retirement savings to cover the mortgage, and ran up their credit cards...

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Republicans To The Unemployed: Pee In This Cup

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.16.2011 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- During a debate on the floor of the House of Representatives this week, Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) suggested the unemployed can't find jobs ...

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U.S. Jobless Claims Drop To Lowest Level In Three And A Half Years

Posted 12.15.2011 | Business

Read More: Jobs Crisis, Unemployment Applications, Unemployment Insurance, Unemployment Claims, Jobless Claims, Joblessness, Labor Market 2011, Jobs Market 2011, Business News

WASHINGTON - New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits dropped to a 3-1/2 year low last week, a government report showed on Thursday, suggesting t...

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Many Big Company CEOs Say They May Cut Staff

AP | By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.14.2011 | Business

Read More: Business Roundtable, European Debt Crisis, Jobs Crisis, Video, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Big Ceos, Euro Debt Crisis, Ceos, Hiring, Joblessness, Sluggish Growth, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Two-thirds of chief executives of the largest U.S. companies say they don't plan to increase hiring or will cut staff in the next six mo...

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Employers Can't Keep Momentum After Job Openings Hit Three-Year High

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.13.2011 | Business

Read More: Job Openings, Job Openings 2011, Joblessness, Job Openings September, Job Openings October, Unemployment Crisis, Business News

WASHINGTON — U.S. employers advertised slightly fewer jobs in October, a modest decline from a three-year high hit in the previous month. Compa...

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Some Suggest Government Fix Jobs Crisis With Government Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.09.2011 | Business

Read More: Public Works, New Deal Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps, Jobs Crisis, Unemployment, New Deal, Economic Development, Works Progress Administration, High Unemployment, Government Jobs, Fdr, Joblessness, Unemployment Rate, Ccc, Business News

NEW YORK -- John Brennan turned 91 in May. Today he lives in relatively good health on Long Island, his mortgage paid off. When he was growing up in M...

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The Labor Market Recovery That Never Came

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 12.08.2011 | Business

Read More: Labor Market, Jobs Crisis, Unemployment, Economy, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment, Business News, Jobs, Joblessness, Business News

In the first full year of the U.S. recovery, of those Americans who worked, more held down full-time, year-round jobs -- but fewer Americans worked at...

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Cain: 'Where Do We Stop?'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.28.2011 | Politics

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Setting markers for the legislative debate ahead, presidential candidate Herman Cain said he opposed reauthorizing extended unemployment benefits that...

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Jobless Americans With Uncertain Unemployment Benefits Face An Uneasy Thanksgiving

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 11.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Unemployment Benefits, Unemployment, Joblessness, Job Crisis, Thanksgiving Dinner, Job Search, Unemployment Extension, Thanksgiving, Business News

Most years, Thanksgiving dinner at Pauline Richter's house in Skokie, Ill., features the classic American tableau: turkey with all the trimmings, an a...

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Ending Long-Term Jobless Benefits Would Hurt Economy

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 11.22.2011 | Business

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WASHINGTON — A tax cut that reaches 160 million Americans and government aid for the long-term unemployed will expire at the end of the year &nd...;

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Down Economy Means Many Households Scaling Back On Thanksgiving Dinner

AP | NOMAAN MERCHANT and DAVID KLEPPER | Posted 11.22.2011 | Business

Read More: Thanksgiving Bad Economy, U.S. Economy, Video, Unemployment, Thanksgiving Dinner, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving 2011, Business News, Economic Recovery, Joblessness, Recession, Business News

Some are holding potluck dinners instead of springing for the entire feast. Others are staying home rather than flying. And a few are skipping the tur...

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Unemployment Fell In Most U.S. States Last Month

AP | By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 11.22.2011 | Business

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WASHINGTON -- Unemployment rates fell in three-quarters of U.S. states last month, a sign that many parts of the country are experiencing modest job g...

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In Down Economy, Debt Collector Complaints Spike

Posted 11.18.2011 | Business

Read More: Down-Economy, Credit Card Debts, Debt Collectors, Unemployment, Joblessness, Debts, Debt Collection Agencies, Video, Business News

As the down economy makes it increasingly difficult for Americans to pay their bills, debt collectors are targeting consumers in droves, prompting an ...

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Recent College Grad Dons "Hire Me" Sandwich Board

Turnstyle | Posted 11.17.2011 | College

Photo: Tajah Jones/Youth Radio Alexander Monsanto wearing his "Hire Me" sandwich board in San Francisco. By: Sayre Quevedo Alexander Monsanto has ac...

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Rich Kid Looking For A Job? Ask Dad

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 11.16.2011 | Business

Read More: Family Connections, Nepotism, Job Market, Rich Kids, Parents Getting Jobs for Their Kids, The One Percent, Unemployment, Business News, Family Connections Jobs, Joblessness, Rich-Parents, Video, Business News

NBC may be getting some widespread criticism for its decision earlier this week to hire Chelsea Clinton as a special correspondent, but Bill's daughte...

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Americans Moved At An All-Time Low Rate Last Year

Posted 11.16.2011 | Business

Read More: Underwater Mortgages Jobs, American Moving Rates, Census Bureau, Video, Unemployment, Homeownership, Business News, Homeowners, Joblessness, Moving, Underwater Mortgages, Business News

Americans last year moved at the lowest rate in recorded history, according to a new report from the Census Bureau. Between 2010 and 2011, 11.6 per...

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Hollywood Occupying Hope

Brent Budowsky | Posted 11.14.2011 | Culture

Read More: Sammy Davis Jr, Poverty, Grapes of Wrath Foreclosures, Economic Crisis, Julia Roberts, Edward R Murrow, Civil Rights, Frank Sinatra, Angelina Jolie, Ocean's Eleven, A Better Life, Brad Pitt, Pay Equity, Joblessness, Fair Deal, Entertainers, Arianna Huffington, George Clooney, 99 Percent, Matt Damon, Occupy Wall Street, Justice, John F Kennedy, Job Creation, Gilded Age, Frank Capra, Hollywood, American Dream, Culture News

Find me a few stars of stage, screen and song with the principle and courage that Frank Sinatra showed when he stood up for his brother Sammy Davis Jr. in the 1950's and you can change the world and help end this cold season of hardship and discontent.

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Bankers Face Double Whammy Of Job Cuts And Sluggish Hiring

Posted 11.11.2011 | Business

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Bankers, enduring rounds of deep job cuts, face the grim prospect of having nowhere to turn to for immediate employment in the industry, as nearly...

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Bernanke: Fed 'Intently' Focused On Job Creation

Posted 11.10.2011 | Business

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FORT BLISS, Texas (Reuters) - Spurring stronger growth and more robust job creation in the weak recovery are top priorities for the Federal Reserv...

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'Jobs,' [Willie Brown] Said

Arthur Bruzzone | Posted 11.09.2011 | San Francisco

Read More: San Francisco, Offthebus, Unemployment, offthebus2012, Joblessness, San Francisco Mayoral Race, Jobs, San Francisco News

The issues of the 2011 San Francisco mayor's race, the tax measures winning around the San Francisco Bay Area, even the protests in Oakland, will not create one single job.

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Who Gets Unemployment Benefits?

The New York Times | Casey B. Mulligan | Posted 11.09.2011 | Business

Read More: Business News, Unemployment Benefits, Jobless Benefits, Long-Term Unemployed, Unemployment, Joblessness, Jobless Rate, Unemployment Rate, Business News

It’s commonly assumed that unemployed people not receiving unemployment benefits have been unlucky enough to go without a job for so long that their...

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In Detroit, Rampant Joblessness Spurs Reinvention of Work Itself

Olga Bonfiglio | Posted 11.08.2011 | Detroit

Read More: Offthebus, Unemployment, offthebus2012, Economy, Jobs, Joblessness, Recession, Great Recession, Occupy Detroit, Detroit News

Participants acknowledged that relying on political and economic leaders to lead was a fruitless endeavor because they have forgotten the people they are supposed to represent. A "we have to do it ourselves" attitude permeated the conference in a recognition that representative democracy is in serious decline. Besides, they said, societal change usually occurs at the grassroots level--and rigid social class distinctions and hierarchies have no place in the new economy we are envisioning.

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WATCH: Illinois Dad Struggles To Find Home For Him And Daughter

Posted 11.04.2011 | Impact

Read More: Video, Unemployment, Homelessness, Princess Bailey, Illinois, Joblessness, Hesed House, Aurora, Prentiss Bailey, Impact News

Though Prentiss Bailey had to move him and his daughter from their two-bedroom apartment, complete with a yard and dining room, into a tiny room in a ...

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On the October Jobs Report

Jared Bernstein | Posted 11.04.2011 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, October Jobless Rate, Unemployed, Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Economy, Economic Crisis, Economic Recovery, Joblessness, Business News

As long as consumers remain strapped, it's hard for me to see why corporations sitting on trillions in cash reserves would invest here as opposed to expanding, emerging economies elsewhere.

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$25,250: Average Debt Load For 2010 Graduates Hits Record High Amid Difficult Job Market

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 11.03.2011 | College

Read More: Project on Student Debt, Unemployment, $25, 250, 2010 Student Debt, Student Debt, 000, Recent Graduates, Joblessness, Student Loan Debt, Cost of College, College News

NEW YORK -- For the class of 2010, graduation marked a harsh introduction to a cruel reality: the highest average debt load on record and a 9.1 percen...

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