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Help Wanted Gone Wild- The Weird And Wacky World Of Craigslist Want Ads

Help Wanted Gone Wild- The Weird And Wacky World Of Craigslist Want Ads

By R.W. GREENE— There are few things more stressful than being unemployed when you don’t…

Why Jobs And Livelihoods Matter

Why Jobs And Livelihoods Matter

Aurelio Parisotto, ILO Senior Economist As we approach the 2015 deadline for the current Millennium Development…

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  • Obama Could Give These Striking Low-Wage Workers The Raise They Need
  • Republicans And Business Push To Expand Guest Worker Programs
  • Income, Age Key Factors in Retirement Funding Expectations
  • European Economic Highlights – Will Consumer Confidence Rise Again?
  • For U.S. Workers, Lack Of Exercise Most Linked To Obesity
  • Fewer Americans Feeling Frugal, But No Sign Of Spending Splurge
  • Average U.S. Retirement Age Rises To 61
  • Unemployment: First Time Jobless Claims Soar To 360,000
  • U.S. Economy: Spring Sequester Swoon Could Extend into Summer
  • Breaking Down This Week’s Fast Food Strikes in St. Louis and Detroit
  • Amazon Warehouse Workers Forced To Wait At Security Off The Clock
  • Four States That Snubbed Health Care Law Gaining Jobs From It
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Bizarre Boss Requests – 5 Ways To Say No And Not Get Fired

By VICKIE ELMER— Bosses’ requests can be bizarre – and occasionally illegal. Take for example, the boss who asked a co-worker to spy on senior management. Or the one who asked to have her dog’s toenails clipped. Then there’s the one who asked a colleague to serve as a surrogate mother for his child. All…

Bizarre Boss Requests – 5 Ways To Say No And Not Get Fired

With High Deductible Health Insurance, It Pays To Shop Around For Care

By MICHELLE ANDREWS, KHN— When Maria and Vadim Brodsky’s then 7-year-old daughter needed an MRI two years ago to examine a tumor in her head, they took her to a hospital in their health insurance plan’s network and were dismayed to receive a $4,500 bill. The couple had a $6,000 deductible on their family health insurance…

With High Deductible Health Insurance, It Pays To Shop Around For Care

Farm Workers Fired For Fleeing California Wildfire Get Jobs Back

By ANNIE-ROSE STRASSER, ThinkProgress— Fifteen farm workers have won back their right to work after being fired last week for fleeing wildfire smoke. The workers, who pick strawberries for Crisalida Farms in Oxnard, California, were warned by their foreman that they’d lose their jobs if they left. But the raining ash and blowing smoke caused by the fast-burning wildfires proved…

Farm Workers Fired For Fleeing California Wildfire Get Jobs Back

Balancing Work And Family: Study Shows Changing Roles Of Parents

By KIM PARKER and WENDY WANG, Pew Research Center— The way parents spend their time has changed dramatically in the past half century. Dads do more housework and child care; moms have more paid work outside the home. Neither has overtaken the other in their “traditional” realms, but their roles are converging, according to a…

Balancing Work And Family: Study Shows Changing Roles Of Parents

Facebook Vacations: Coming And Going On Facebook

Two-thirds of online American adults (67%) are Facebook users, making Facebook the dominant social networking site in this country.1 And new findings from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project indicate there is considerable fluidity in the Facebook user population: 61% of current Facebook users say that at one time or another in…

Facebook Vacations: Coming And Going On Facebook

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Help Wanted Gone Wild- The Weird And Wacky World Of Craigslist Want Ads

Help Wanted Gone Wild- The Weird And Wacky World Of Craigslist Want Ads

By R.W. GREENE— There are few things more stressful than being unemployed when you don’t…

Balancing Work And Family: Study Shows Changing Roles Of Parents

Balancing Work And Family: Study Shows Changing Roles Of Parents

By KIM PARKER and WENDY WANG, Pew Research Center— The way parents spend their time…

Obama Could Give These Striking Low-Wage Workers The Raise They Need

Obama Could Give These Striking Low-Wage Workers The Raise They Need

By LAURA CLAWSON, for Daily Kos Labor— The latest round of low-wage workers to stage…

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Predatory Payday Lenders: On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated By Debt

Predatory Payday Lenders: On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated By Debt

By Paul Kiel and Krista Kjellman Schmid, ProPublica, and Mitchell Hartman, Marketplace– Seven years after Congress…

Stable Jobs For Workers With Intellectual Disabilities A Global Challenge

Stable Jobs For Workers With Intellectual Disabilities A Global Challenge

  There are almost 200 million persons with intellectual disabilities in the world. For many…

ManpowerGroup Urges Manufacturers To Help Solve the Skills Shortage

ManpowerGroup Urges Manufacturers To Help Solve the Skills Shortage

Staffing firm ManpowerGroup is urging manufacturers to commit to private-public sector task forces for developing…