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Ooops! Did A Spreadsheet Error Cost You Your Job?
21/04/2013 Comments Off on Ooops! Did A Spreadsheet Error Cost You Your Job?
By DEAN BAKER— Did an Excel error cost you your job? This is what people around the world should be asking after researchers at the University of Massachusetts uncovered a serious calculation mistake. The mistake was in an enormously influential paper by Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff, two prominent economists, which purports to show that high levels […]
Continue reading …U.S. Homeowners’ Reasons for Owning More Than Financial
19/04/2013 Comments Off on U.S. Homeowners’ Reasons for Owning More Than Financial
While U.S. homeowners are most likely to say they bought for the investment benefit, with 16% saying so, nearly as many say it was just because they “believe in owning.” Affordability is the main issue keeping renters from buying.
Continue reading …American Dream of Owning Home Lives On, Even for Young
19/04/2013 Comments Off on American Dream of Owning Home Lives On, Even for Young
American Dream of Owning Home Lives On, Even for Young Most Americans either own a home and will continue to do so (56%), or don’t own a home but plan on buying one (25%). Eleven percent don’t own a home and have no plans to buy one; 3% own a home but plan on selling […]
Continue reading …100,000 Jobs Mission Says 64,628 U.S. Veterans Hired Through 1Q 2013
17/04/2013 Comments Off on 100,000 Jobs Mission Says 64,628 U.S. Veterans Hired Through 1Q 2013
The 100,000 Jobs Mission announced April 17, 20913, that its member companies have collectively hired 64,628 U.S. military veterans through the first quarter of 2013. JPMorgan Chase and ten other companies with the goal to collectively hire at least 100,000 veterans by 2020 launched this private sector initiative in early 2011. In two years, the […]
Continue reading …Average Starting Salary For New College Grads Up 5.3%
17/04/2013 Comments Off on Average Starting Salary For New College Grads Up 5.3%
The average starting salary for new college graduates earning bachelor’s degrees has increased 5.3% from last year, according to a new report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). NACE’s April 2013 Salary Survey — the first look at starting salaries for the Class of 2013 — found that the average starting salary […]
Continue reading …ILO: Arab Nations Must Seize Opportunity For Employment Reform
16/04/2013 Comments Off on ILO: Arab Nations Must Seize Opportunity For Employment Reform
Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General ILO News– ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, has called for policy reforms in the Arab region to strengthen social dialogue, tackle soaring youth unemployment, promote social protection and foster the rights of workers and employers to freely organize themselves. “What is needed is a comprehensive vision for sustainable economic and social development” […]
Continue reading …Party On Class Of 2013: Real World Offers Dim Job Prospects, Low Wages
12/04/2013 Comments Off on Party On Class Of 2013: Real World Offers Dim Job Prospects, Low Wages
Bummer job prospects and deflating wages await most of the graduating class of 2013, a new report finds. The Great Recession and its aftermath have decimated job prospects and earnings for young workers, a new Economic Policy Institute (EPI) report shows. In The Class of 2013: Young Graduates Still Face Dim Job Prospects, EPI researchers Heidi […]
Continue reading …Male Nurses More Common, Numbers Triple Since 1970
12/04/2013 Comments Off on Male Nurses More Common, Numbers Triple Since 1970
Male nurses aren’t as rare as they used to be. More men are becoming RNs. While the nursing profession remains overwhelmingly female, number of male nurses has tripled during the past 40 years, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau study. In 2011 330,000 men were employed as nurses in the United States, about 9.6% […]
Continue reading …Americans See Best Quality Job Market In U.S. In Five Years
12/04/2013 Comments Off on Americans See Best Quality Job Market In U.S. In Five Years
By Dennis Jacobe, Gallup Chief Economist– Twenty-six percent of Americans say now is a good time to find a quality job — the highest since March 2008. This is also up from 22% in March and from 21% a year ago, but not much different than the 25% who said the same in January. At the […]
Continue reading …Oslo Declaration: Confidence In European Jobs And Growth Can Be Restored, ILO Says
12/04/2013 Comments Off on Oslo Declaration: Confidence In European Jobs And Growth Can Be Restored, ILO SaysGuy Ryder, ILO Director-General OSLO – In a move to restore confidence in jobs and growth in Europe, the 9th European Regional Meeting of the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted the Oslo Declaration. The Declaration which strengthens the role of the ILO in Europe and Central Asia is set to help countries affected by the crisis to overcome […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill