Anything effecting the creation and maintenance of jobs, including government policies, restrictions, taxes, licensing, burdens, demands and regulations that limit the creation of employment opportunities, or create disincentives to keep them.
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News 100 Million Americans Without Jobs
05-24-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Eddy Elfenbein
The national unemployment rates gets lots of attention, and lately more attention has been paid to the workforce participation rate since more Americans have given up looking for a job, but we can also see that an astounding 100 million Americans don
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News The 10 Most Distressed Cities In America
05-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
American consumers are in the best financial shape they've been in since the third quarter of 2008, according to the latest report from CredAbility.
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News Here's The TED Presentation About Rich People That TED Doesn't Want You To See
05-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Grace Wyler
The National Journal reports today that TED is refusing to publish a recent talk from megarich venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, which argued that rich people actually don't create jobs, and that cutting their taxes is harmful to the middle class.
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News May 15, 1930: The Skies Get a Little Bit Friendlier
05-15-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Tony Long
1930: Ellen Church becomes the world’s first airline stewardess, working a Boeing Air Transport flight from Oakland, California, to Chicago. The flight takes 20 hours and involves 13 stops along the way.
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News 2,000 Apply for Jobs Building Asteroid-Mining Robots
05-15-2012
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http://www.space.com, by Mike Wall
If you want to be an asteroid miner, you've got some stiff competition.
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News Getting the Government’s Permission to Work
05-10-2012
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The Agitator
As a new report issued today by the Institute for Justice discusses, more and more Americans now need the government’s permission before they can pursue the occupation of their choice. The IJ report, “License to Work: A National Study of Burdens from
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News Obama’s jobs program: A laundry list of corporate handouts
05-10-2012
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www.globalresearch.ca, World Socialist Web Site
On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama made his first speech on economic policy since the official start of his reelection campaign, calling on Congress to enact a list of corporate handouts in the name of “creating jobs.”
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News Quick! Guess How Many Jobs Were Created Per Month During The Bush Administration...
05-06-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com,Henry Blodget
Paul Krugman observes that Mitt Romney has been blasting Barack Obama for not creating more jobs.
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News Labor Dept. trumpets declining unemployment while US labor force participation at 30-year low
05-05-2012
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http://rt.com
The latest jobs figures from the US Labor Department make America’s current unemployment crisis seem almost over.
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News A Salary Guide To 23 Of The Most Random Jobs In America
05-04-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the ultimate resource for those curious about jobs in America.
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News GET READY: Here's What You need To Know For Today's Huge Jobs Report
05-04-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
It's that day of the month again: jobs day!
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News Hotdesking, the latest office trend to annoy employees
04-29-2012
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http://www.globalpost.com, Suzanne Munshower
Non-territorial office space appeals to managers, but employees aren't so sure. There's also no place to keep that "World's Greatest Dad" mug.
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News Fracked Up: The Boom of the Century, RV Armies, Exploding Meth Labs, Parking Lot Rape and All
04-28-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Abby Zimet
An up-close look at the roughnecks, puffnecks, strippers, truck drivers, lap dancers, man camps, meth labs, doubled housing prices, $25-an-hour waitresses and other gritty elements of the "new Big Rock Candy Mountain"
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News Labor Dept. withdraws farm child labor rule after Daily Caller report goes viral
04-27-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Conner
Under pressure from farming advocates in rural communities, and following a report by The Daily Caller, the Obama administration withdrew a proposed rule Thursday that would have applied child labor laws to family farms.
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News How Employment and Economic Growth are Hindered by Politics
04-26-2012
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http://dailyreckoning.com, By Bill Bonner
Nothing special in yesterday’s financial news. So let’s turn from farce to fraud…that is, to politics.
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News Young men in Mexico say the U.S. no longer offers them a better future
04-26-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Edward Helmore
In a typical year, the young men in this agricultural region of western Mexico would have made the journey north to America.
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News Half of recent grads can’t get full-time work, study shows
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
Congratulations to the graduating class of 2012. We’ll be expecting you at the welfare office!
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News Arizona's Illegal Workforce Is Down, So Now What?
04-22-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Peter O'Dowd
The state's divisive immigration law isn't the only reason thousands may have left.
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News States asked to apply for unemployment test plan
04-19-2012
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www.news.yahoo.com
The Obama administration is looking for states that will experiment with unemployment insurance programs by letting people test a job while still receiving benefits.
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News Need a job, young man? Choose mining!
04-16-2012
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MSNBC
The prospect of a fast-tracked career and a hefty starting salary has students flocking to mining schools. The Colorado School of Mines, gets more than 11,000 applications each year and accepts less than 1,000 students.
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News This Is How You Get Fired Before Your First Day On The Job
04-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Vivian Giang
When Khristopher Brooks received a job offer with the Wilmington News Journal, he was so ecstatic that he announced it on his personal Tumblr blog.
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News RECRUITER: 'I'll Make 250k This Year, While You're Unemployed LOL'
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Emma Carmichael
A man we'll call Robert has a profile on the employment website Monster.com, and earlier today he received a message from a recruiter about a job in "beautiful Northwest Arkansas."
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News Explosive: Monsanto ‘Knowingly Poisoned Workers’ Causing Devastating Birth Defects
04-13-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Anthony Gucciardi
In a developing news piece just unleashed by a courthouse news wire, Monsanto is being brought to court by dozens of Argentinean tobacco farmers who say that the biotech giant knowingly poisoned them with herbicides and pesticides and subsequently ca
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News Retiring German State Worker, He Hadn't Done Any Work For The Last 14 Years
04-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
An administrative employee in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has sent a mass email to colleagues on the day he retired, revealing how he had nothing to do for the past 14 years
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News WATCH: Here's How They Build iPads At The Foxconn Factory In China
04-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matt Rosoff
Reporter Rob Schmitz from the radio show Marketplace recently gained access to the Foxconn plant in China where Apple builds its iPads. He's only the second reporter to do so.
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News Obama second term ‘in hands of 30 mln unemployed’
04-11-2012
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http://rt.com
With around 20 per cent real unemployment, it’s US joblessness that could prove the stumbling block for Obama's second term – not foreign policy issues
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News What Recruiters Look At During The 6 Seconds They Spend On Your Resume
04-10-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Vivian Giang
Although we may never know why we didn't get chosen for a job interview, a recent study is shedding some light on recruiters' decision-making behavior.
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News Unemployed Greeks Look To Create Their Own Jobs
04-10-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Joanna Kakissis
In Greece, more than 21 percent of the working-age population is jobless. For Greeks under age 25, the rate is more than double that.
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News For Freelancers, Landing A Workspace Gets Harder
04-10-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Kaomi Goetz
The recession brought widespread unemployment across the U.S., but it also prompted a spike in the number of freelance or independent workers.
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Headlines: For Freelancers, Landing A Workspace Gets Harder -- Unemployed Greeks Look To Create Their Own Jobs -- What Recruiters Look At During The 6 Seconds They Spend On Your Resume -- Obama second term ‘in hands of 30 mln unemployed’ -- WATCH: Here's How They Build iPads At The Foxconn Factory In China
-- Retiring German State Worker, He Hadn't Done Any Work For The Last 14 Years
-- Explosive: Monsanto ‘Knowingly Poisoned Workers’ Causing Devastating Birth Defects -- RECRUITER: 'I'll Make 250k This Year, While You're Unemployed LOL' -- This Is How You Get Fired Before Your First Day On The Job -- Need a job, young man? Choose mining! -- States asked to apply for unemployment test plan -- Arizona's Illegal Workforce Is Down, So Now What? -- Half of recent grads can’t get full-time work, study shows -- Young men in Mexico say the U.S. no longer offers them a better future -- How Employment and Economic Growth are Hindered by Politics
-- Labor Dept. withdraws farm child labor rule after Daily Caller report goes viral -- Fracked Up: The Boom of the Century, RV Armies, Exploding Meth Labs, Parking Lot Rape and All -- Hotdesking, the latest office trend to annoy employees -- GET READY: Here's What You need To Know For Today's Huge Jobs Report
-- A Salary Guide To 23 Of The Most Random Jobs In America
-- Labor Dept. trumpets declining unemployment while US labor force participation at 30-year low -- Quick! Guess How Many Jobs Were Created Per Month During The Bush Administration... -- Obama’s jobs program: A laundry list of corporate handouts -- Getting the Government’s Permission to Work -- 2,000 Apply for Jobs Building Asteroid-Mining Robots -- May 15, 1930: The Skies Get a Little Bit Friendlier -- Here's The TED Presentation About Rich People That TED Doesn't Want You To See -- The 10 Most Distressed Cities In America -- ROBERT REICH TO NEW COLLEGE GRADS: 'You're F*cked' -- 100 Million Americans Without Jobs --
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