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Stronger U.S. Job Market Seen, Global Unemployment Outlook Grim
27/02/2012 Comments Off on Stronger U.S. Job Market Seen, Global Unemployment Outlook Grim
By ROBERT SCALLY — The outlook for the U.S. economy is mostly unchanged from that of three months ago, according to 45 economic forecasters surveyed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The economy continues to slowly improve, and should keep getting better for the next few years. The overall forecast for job growth and […]
Continue reading …US Outlook: Job Market Improves, But Will It Last?
16/02/2012 Comments Off on US Outlook: Job Market Improves, But Will It Last?
In the most recent sign the job market in the US is steadily improving, the number of people on unemployment benefits dropped to the lowest point in almost four years last week, according to a US Department of Labor report issued 16 February 2012. In the unemployment report, the Labor Department reports weekly applications for […]
Continue reading …AllGov.com – Outsourcing Death In The Afghanistan War
16/02/2012 Comments Off on AllGov.com – Outsourcing Death In The Afghanistan War
During the past decade, working as an employee of a U.S. military contractor in Afghanistan has been one of the more dangerous ways to make a living. Private contractors have been front and center in the U.S. military’s involvement Afghanistan, just as they were in both wars in Iraq. Contractors have been responsible for supplying […]
Continue reading …Droopy Rupee Aids India’s Outsourcing Firms
28/11/2011 Comments Off on Droopy Rupee Aids India’s Outsourcing Firms
With the rupee drooping to record lows versus the U.S. dollar, The Economic Times of India reports that major outsourcing firms Infosys Ltd and HCL Technologies Ltd are “poised to profit” from foreign-exchange hedging. During 2011 the rupee has fallen about 14% against the dollar, and is the worst performing Asian currency. A weaker rupee […]
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Thanksgiving Day: 24 Nov. 2011 – In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims, early settlers of Plymouth Colony, held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest, an event many regard as the nation’s first Thanksgiving. Historians have also recorded ceremonies of thanks among other groups of European settlers in North America, including British colonists in […]
Continue reading …U.S. Health Care Reform Law Heads to High Court Showdown
16/11/2011 Comments Off on U.S. Health Care Reform Law Heads to High Court Showdown
Key elements of the U.S. Health Care Reform will go before the nation’s highest court next spring, and any decision could become an election year bombshell. The United States Supreme Court announced 14 Nov. 2011, that it will hear oral arguments on a total of four specific questions raised in federal circuit court decisions that […]
Continue reading …IBT Bogs: Seven Federal Job Search Myths Dispelled
14/11/2011 Comments Off on IBT Bogs: Seven Federal Job Search Myths Dispelled
Job Search Myths: From IBTblogs, CareerWise: Are you wondering how to land a federal job? Have you been discouraged by naysayers? Are you wondering if the federal government is really hiring thousands of people? Well that one I’ll answer now. YES! So if you are not incorporating federal jobs in your job search strategy it’s […]
Continue reading …One Doctor Complains, HHS Censors Public Database
12/11/2011 Comments Off on One Doctor Complains, HHS Censors Public Database
By Marian Wang, ProPublica An agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that maintains a discipline and medical-malpractice database reopened it for public access 9 Nov. 2011, two months after the agency had first taken the database offline. The National Practitioner Data Bank contains information used by hospitals, insurers, and licensing boards […]
Continue reading …Flat Taxes Are Big in the Former USSR: Have They Worked?
10/11/2011 Comments Off on Flat Taxes Are Big in the Former USSR: Have They Worked?
By Braden Goyette, ProPublica GOP presidential candidates Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich have all introduced proposals for flat taxes, which aim to tax everyone at the same rate. The idea is to simplify the tax code, getting rid of loopholes and reducing entitlements and deductions. Gingrich and Perry have both promised that Americans […]
Continue reading …EPI – Minimal Improvement in Job Prospects in the U.S.
08/11/2011 Comments Off on EPI – Minimal Improvement in Job Prospects in the U.S.
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) released on 8 Nov. 2011 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the number of job openings increased by 225,000 in September to 3.4 million. The total number of unemployed workers in September was 14.0 million (unemployment data come from the Current Population Survey). Therefore the […]
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