Category Archives: TidbitsToday, Congress, by a vote of 68-29, passed the Jobs Bill. Just to refresh your memory, the jobs bill promises the following:
Businesses that hire unemployed workers will be exempt from paying the 6.2% Social Security payroll tax through December 2010
Businesses that retain these employees for a full year receive an additional $1,000 credit/worker
$18 billion in [...]
With 16M unemployed and only a few bright spots in the job market, landing a new job is tough. In fact, it’s getting to be a Herculean feat. There simply are not enough jobs available and in the right markets to get everyone who wants to work back to work.
Making matters worse is the fact [...]
Here is a sobering look at how unemployment has blanketed the U.S. like a plague since the start of the recession. The animation was created by American University grad student Latoya Egwuekwe and it’s worth seeing if you haven’t. It’s especially timely given that the jobs bill is nearing approval.
OK. We know it sounds like a scam, but, thus far, it checks out! The folks at social coupon startup Groupon are offering a brave soul the opportunity to drop everything and escape their dreary lives for one year for a $100,000 prize.
You’ll have to live off the land. Just kidding! You’ll have to live [...]
Unemployment numbers are scary. Being unemployed is scarier. Millions of people are currently unemployed and have been for months. If you’re among them, you understand the long-term unemployment stats intimately.
LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT STATS
6.3 million people have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more.
8.3 million people have been forced to work part-time due to an inability to [...]
The New York Times (NYT) recently published an interesting interactive chart on their site. The chart is entitled “The Jobless Rate for People Like You”, and NYT hopes you will use it to check out your very own unemployment rate (OK, the unemployment rate for people in your demographic).
Not sure why you’d want to use [...]
Careersthatdontsuck.com is thankful for its readers and supporters today. We hope that each of you is enjoying your holiday with family and friends, and that you will take a deep breath, relax and enjoy the fact that today is not a job-hunting day. Not much is open, and what is open is being run by [...]
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