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Nearly half of U.S. employers struggle to fill open positions
Even as millions of Americans hunt for jobs, nearly half of U.S. employers say they’re having trouble finding the right people to hire for open positions. Demand for skilled trades workers and engineers makes those jobs particularly difficult to...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Labor Markets, Career and Workplace, Employment, Labor Legislation
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Stocks fall 1% in early trading on Wall Street
Major U.S. stock indexes tumbled 1% in early trading Wednesday amid worries over Spain's banking system and Chinese economic growth. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 140 points, or 1.1%, to 12,441 shortly after the opening bell. The broader...
Tags: Stock Market, Media Industry, Memorial Day
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Pep Boys' stock plunges 22% following collapse of buyout deal
Pep Boys' stock plunged 22% following the collapse of a buyout deal with a Los Angeles-based private equity firm. The Philadelphia-based automotive retail and repair chain on Tuesday announced the termination of its planned $1.1-billion buyout by The...
Tags: Media Industry
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Bring farmworkers' plight into the sunlight
FRESNO — It was around 2 o'clock, temperatures rising under an arcing sun, when I met two workers on a peach farm near here recently. One had first entered the country illegally nearly 40 years ago but later became a U.S. citizen at a time when the...
Tags: Medina (Saudi Arabia), Republican Party, Work Relations, Politics, Immigration
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New requirements for long-term unemployment benefits to kick in
As part of new federal requirements, about 500,000 Californians receiving long-term unemployment benefits will soon have to appear in person at local job centers to show they are actively looking for work. The requirements are the result of the...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Career and Workplace, Employment, Unemployment, Barack Obama
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Making jobless go cold turkey isn't the answer [Video]
It's a mark of a civilized society that we look after the unfortunate during hard times. On that score, the United States is about to (once again) come up short. Hundreds of thousands of long-term jobless Americans are now receiving their final...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Democratic Party, Labor Markets, Career and Workplace, Employment
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California gasoline use rose for first time in a year in February
For the first time in a year, Californians consumed more gasoline in a month than they had during the same period a year earlier, according to the State's Board of Equalization. It happened in February, which is the Equalization Board's most recent...
Tags: Labor Markets, Gasoline Industry, Petroleum Industry
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Joe Biden says GOP stymied 'progress' in boosting economy
It's come to this: Joe Biden compared Mitt Romney to a horse. The vice president, campaigning in New Hampshire on Tuesday, argued that Romney has it wrong when he tells voters that things "have gotten much worse" and that Obama administration policies...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Parties and Movements, Tea Party Movement, Mitt Romney
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Obama urges Congress to extend clean-energy tax credits
NEWTON, Iowa — From a wind-power factory in this battleground state, President Obama urged Congress to extend tax credits he said would save jobs in the field of clean-energy production.
Obama said continuing the production tax credit would save...Tags: Energy, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Wind Power, David Koch
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Consumer bureau moves to regulate reloadable prepaid cards
WASHINGTON — The consumer financial watchdog is taking aim at reloadable prepaid cards, moving to regulate a fast-growing product that has become a popular alternative to checking accounts for lower-income Americans and a new source of fees for some...Tags: Credit and Debt, Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Consumers, Richard Cordray, Banking
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Weekly jobless aid applications slip to 370,000
The number of new applicants for unemployment benefits changed little last week, signaling modest job growth. The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications for benefits slipped by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 370,000. Applications have...
Tags: Homes, Employment Opportunities, Companies and Corporations, Layoffs and Downsizing, Labor Markets
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Jobless claims barely change; durable goods orders plunge
After jobless claims reached a five-month high in April, last week’s tiny dip came as a relief. But a heavy slide in orders for long-lasting goods is less soothing. Applications for unemployment benefits shrank by 2,000 last week to a seasonally...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Labor Markets, General Mills Incorporated, Career and Workplace, Employment
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