Good News: Layoffs Down, Americans’ Wealth Up
The latest unemployment numbers show the number of newly laid-off workers unexpectedly dropped by 12,000 to end last week at 545,000 claims. Analysts expected claims to rise by 5,000, but instead, we got third decline of the past four weeks and the lowest level of claims since early July. California had the largest drop in [...]
A New Plague on the Unemployed
It’s bad enough that 13.2 million people are unemployed, that many who are eligible have been unable to secure unemployment benefits, that millions of part-time workers in the 16 highest-unemployment states are not eligible for unemployment benefits, that millions of unemployed people are losing their homes and considering bankruptcy. But, there’s a new plague swarming [...]
Careersthatdontsuck.com’s 2009 Career Predictions #6
The Consumerist Industry After every crisis or tragedy there’s an outcropping of gurus and specialists, each of whom claims to have called the ending before it arrived, each of whom claims to have a proprietary technology, process or Gallup-esque survey tool to ward off future incidences. This recession is already beginning to sow its first [...]
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