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• Abby Rogers and Melissa StangerThis is part of our comprehensive ranking of The Best Law Schools in America.
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Employment & Jobs
Presenting The Most Unemployed Cities In Every State
• http://www.businessinsider.com,U.S. national unemployment rate fell to 8.2 percent in August — down in nearly 90 percent of the country's metro areas.
People Who Work From Home Are Way Different Than The Rest Of Us
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob WileThe population working exclusively from home increased from 4.8 percent of all workers to 6.6 percent from 1997 to 2010, according to a new report from the Census.
First-Year Lawyer Salaries Have Plummeted
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Abby RogersThat dream of a cushy job at a Biglaw firm just keeps getting farther and farther away.
LOCKHART SAYS FED WILL BUY BONDS UNTIL U.S. EMPLOYMENT IMPROVES.
• http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler DurdenConsidering that employment is bad because of Fed "bond buys", which are preventing price clearing and discovery, and perpetuating the worst capital misallocation environment in the history of the world (if not for Apple's professional line waiters),
Harvard Business Review: Data Scientist Is The 'Sexiest Job Of The 21st Century'
• http://www.popsci.com, By Clay DillowWhat is the sexiest job of the 21st century? If you said “data scientist,” you’re probably an editor at Harvard Business Review and probably not anyone else.
Spinning Bad Financial News Into Good
• http://www.thedailybell.com, by Paul Craig RobertsFriday's payroll jobs report says that 96,000 new jobs were created in August and that the unemployment rate (U.3) fell from 8.3% to 8.1%.
The Permanent Unemployment Economy
Sartre BatrThe official underreporting of the unemployment statistics is a well-known fact. The cavalier dismissal of the systemic dismantling of the market economy by the Obama administration is undeniable
The US Job Market Is Just Awful For College Graduates
• http://www.businessinsider.com, John Mauldin,The US Job Market Is Just Awful For College Graduates
Labor Department $100 Million Giveaway to Stop State Layoffs
• www.thedailybell.com, by Mike$100 million sounds like a lot of money but it does not go very far these days. It is less than .01% of the deficit.
A Tale Of Two Cities: Too Many Jobs, Or Not Enough
• http://www.npr.org, by Stefania FerroMaria Arvizu continues to fill out job applications even though she has yet to deposit her last paycheck.
Pennsylvania city workers to take mayor to court over across-the-board minimum wage salaries
• http://www.foxnews.com, By Perry ChiaramonteEmployees of a Pennsylvania city, who have all seen their salaries cut to minimum wage as the mayor grapples with budget problems, are hoping a judge restores their paychecks in full.
8,733,461: Workers on Federal 'Disability' Exceed Population of New York City
• www.cnsnews.comThere has been a dramatic shrinkage in the United States over the past 20 years in the number of workers actually employed and earning paychecks per worker who is not employed and is taking federal disability insurance payments.
Eurozone unemployment hits record high
• www.ft.comThe European Central Bank is widely expected to make an interest rate cut this week to try to invigorate the eurozone’s ailing economy after unemployment in the region climbed to a record high of 11.1 per cent and a key survey of manufacturing showed
Immigration Hurts American Employment
• http://www.batr.org, James HallFacts mean very little in any debate about immigration north of the Rio Grande. One such example comes from a bastion of journalism, the Daily Beast.
GOP Kills Paycheck Fairness Act, Equal Pay for Women
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staffToday, the Senate Republican minority filibustered to block passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act in a 52 to 47 tally, successfully killing the bill.
100 Million Americans Without Jobs
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Eddy ElfenbeinThe 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
2,000 Apply for Jobs Building Asteroid-Mining Robots
• http://www.space.com, by Mike WallIf you want to be an asteroid miner, you've got some stiff competition.
Getting the Government’s Permission to Work
• The AgitatorAs 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
Quick! Guess How Many Jobs Were Created Per Month During The Bush Administration...
• http://www.businessinsider.com,Henry BlodgetPaul Krugman observes that Mitt Romney has been blasting Barack Obama for not creating more jobs.
Labor Dept. trumpets declining unemployment while US labor force participation at 30-year low
• http://rt.comThe latest jobs figures from the US Labor Department make America’s current unemployment crisis seem almost over.
Hotdesking, the latest office trend to annoy employees
• http://www.globalpost.com, Suzanne MunshowerNon-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.
How Employment and Economic Growth are Hindered by Politics
• http://dailyreckoning.com, By Bill BonnerNothing special in yesterday’s financial news. So let’s turn from farce to fraud…that is, to politics.
Young men in Mexico say the U.S. no longer offers them a better future
• http://www.rawstory.com, By Edward HelmoreIn a typical year, the young men in this agricultural region of western Mexico would have made the journey north to America.
States asked to apply for unemployment test plan
• www.news.yahoo.comThe Obama administration is looking for states that will experiment with unemployment insurance programs by letting people test a job while still receiving benefits.
Unemployed Greeks Look To Create Their Own Jobs
• http://www.npr.org, by Joanna KakissisIn Greece, more than 21 percent of the working-age population is jobless. For Greeks under age 25, the rate is more than double that.
For Freelancers, Landing A Workspace Gets Harder
• http://www.npr.org, by Kaomi GoetzThe recession brought widespread unemployment across the U.S., but it also prompted a spike in the number of freelance or independent workers.
Australia to lure more US construction workers - making it easier to be licensed in your trade
• www.kpho.com"Workers coming into the resources industry in Australia at the moment will be among the best paid workers in the world. The large amount of construction occurring in Australia in developing mines, railways and ports is putting huge demands on us."
UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE US AND CANADA: New Round of Mass Layoffs in North America
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Barry GreyThe US electronics retail chain Best Buy on Thursday announced it would close 50 stores this year and lay off 400 corporate and support workers as part of a plan to cut $800 million in costs and restructure its business.
Does Labor Have Any Real Friends?
• http://www.commondreams.org, by David MacarayDespite well-meaning attempts at mitigating or sugar-coating it, organized labor has always known, deep-down, that the only true friend it had was labor itself.
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