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Saturday, November 7, 2009 by Biodun Iginla, BBC News Senior Analyst Those looking for good news in the U.S. labor market are increasingly being forced to scrape the bottom of the statistical barrel. Optimists pointed to the 34,000 increase in temporary...
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This is a story about my son who works for the City of Foley, he is a G-man (Garbage). I must tell you as anyone would know it is a tough, smelly, bug infested job, but as they say somebody gotta do it!!!! The kicker is that in this economy with cutbacks,...
Tags: Economy, Jobs, Moral, Human Interest
"The latest numbers were released to day on the stimulus money creating new jobs, no I'm not talking about the 10.2% unemployment. That's a whole other story or should I say number. No, the number I'm talking about is the jobs number created in...
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400 days ago my job was eliminated from 3M. 3M continues to eliminate US Citizens from their roles at the company, and sending much of the work to India. Their reported counts, of people being eliminated are...
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Microsoft announced today that they will be laying off another 800 workers, on top of the 5,000 that they announced last January. Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spokesman, said the cuts are being made in offices around the globe, and did not say which groups...
Tags: Microsoft, layoffs, Redmond Wa, Jobs
The Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 would extend the homebuyer’s tax credit until April, 2010. Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray delivered a speech on the floor of the Senate urging her colleagues to support the Worker,...
Tags: Patty Murray, Obama, Worker, Homeownership, and business Assist. Act, jobs
GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF USSTART STOCKING UP YOUR CABINETS I am not claiming that I can see the future, but I have been writing about the demise of the U.S economy, and the devaluation of the U.S dollar,...
Tags: economy, dollar, washington, lust, jobs, wages, unemplyment
The strength of the U.S. dollar is in trouble. In March a $1.25 bought you 1 euro, now it takes $1.50. But I’m here to tell you that this may not be a bad thing, at this time. Over the long term, a weaker dollar could narrow the long-running...
Tags: jobs, dollar, currency, economist, American, Euro, Yen, Yuan, manufacturing, inflation, 2009, stimulus
The Smart Grid was given an additional $3.4 billion stimulus, to fund a hundred projects nationwide, by President Obama Wednesday. The amount was the largest one day stimulus award. The grid is meant to modernize the old energy infrastructure...
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The first Boeing 787 roll-out came in Everett, Washington on July 8, 2007. The 787-Dream liner quickly became the fastest selling wide-body airplane in the history of aerospace manufacturing, with a total of 850 787’s ordered by the end of...
Tags: Boeing 787 dream-liner, Patty Murray, aerospace, Washington, South Carolina, jobs