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2013/05/20 02:12
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Graduating Into A Sunnier Job Market
For nearly 6,900 students who graduated Sunday at colleges around the state, the natural question is: What's next? Happily, this year's graduates have more reason to be optimistic than those who...
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2013/05/20 01:37
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Obama urged to make economy a bigger, bolder topic
WASHINGTON — Five months into President Barack Obama's second term, allies and former top aides worry that his overarching goal of economic opportunity has been diminished, partly drowned out by...
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2013/05/19 05:16
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Kid$ not alright
Well, at least they have their youth. That’s about the only thing going for the generation under 40 here in the US, according to a new study on wealth building over the last 30 years. The average...
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2013/05/18 14:50
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Column: Paying my dues — a tale of three unions
With the state Legislature upping the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 an hour, and fast food workers agitating for a union, it brought to mind my own experience scuffling at low-paying jobs — and the...
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2013/05/18 05:32
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Are engineers too few or just harder to find?
The shortage of engineers has been as common a lament within the auto industry as government regulations. But is it real? A recent study study by the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute...
2013/05/18 05:07
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Degree in hand, so now what?
For the thousands of college graduates accepting a sheepskin this month, they enter a job market still struggling to recover from the recession that began before they were freshmen. This year’s...
Economic Policy Institute King’s College King’s College Temple University Temple University
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2013/05/18 02:56
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Tech, labor locked in fight that threatens US imm...
WASHINGTON - The technology industry and organized labor are locked in a fight that threatens to complicate the U.S. Senate's immigration bill. At the heart of the debate is whether there is a...
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2013/05/17 20:51
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Mississippi jobless rate dips as fewer seek work
JACKSON — Mississippi’s unemployment rate dipped in April, but mainly because fewer people were looking for work. However, a separate survey of employer payrolls continued to rise, suggesting...
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2013/05/17 16:14
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Major Union Calls Tech Industry “Greedy” For Want...
... tech industry is, frankly, being greedy. They are going back and asking for changes to language they helped write and blatantly trying to roll back requirements that give high-skilled American...
Andrea Zuniga American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations Facebook Mark Zuckerberg Reuters
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2013/05/17 11:39
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Technology, labor spar on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — To the U.S. technology industry, there’s a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business. To unions and...
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2013/05/17 06:44
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Battle just beginning for college grads
Battle just beginning for college grads Competition fierce in tight market Print this ArticleEmail this Article Margaret Treacy--will graduate Saturday at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh....
2013/05/16 16:17
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Minimum wage hike hurts
In a recent Sun article, "Labor officials bring minimum wage push to Baltimore" (May 14), a researcher from the labor union-supported Economic Policy Institute claims that the "majority of...
2013/05/16 14:33
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New college grads face difficult job market
Jackie Carter had it all mapped out. She would attend college year-round and graduate early, land a job in criminal justice, start paying off student loans, move into her own apartment and invest in...
Heidi Shierholz National Association of Colleges and Employers Towson University Economic Policy Institute federal Bureau of Labor Statistics
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2013/05/16 09:10
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Few jobs for class of 2013
Worcester colleges and high schools will be graduating tens of thousands of students in May and June. Graduation is a celebration of accomplishment. Millions of parents, families and friends across...
Worcester Conference Board Economic Policy Institute Economic Policy Institute U.S. Census Bureau
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2013/05/15 16:51
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The Real Reason People Don't Have Jobs
The job market is obviously broken, but a new study suggests the damage might not all be permanent. Economists at the San Francisco Federal Reserve on Monday suggested that the recent mysterious...
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2013/05/15 11:02
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Whites Record Wealth Six Times Greater Than Blacks
... great wealth disparities help explain why many middle-income Blacks and Hispanics haven’t seen much improvement in their relative economic status and, in fact, are at greater risk of sliding...
Urban Institute Economic Policy Institute Economic Policy Institute federal government The Louisiana Weekly
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2013/05/15 07:56
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State business rankings aren't bunk
Published: Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 12:01 a.m. State business rankings aren't bunk Economist Peter Fisher doesn't think much of business climate studies. And he and the groups he works with hope you...
Economic Policy Institute Economic Policy Institute Tax Foundation Scott Drenkard San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank
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2013/05/14 18:31
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Whatever Happened To The Economy?
Remember the economy? The election year was dominated by talk about jobs and the economy, but neither the administration nor Congress seems to have any grand ideas for jump-starting a still sluggish...
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2013/05/13 23:17
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Labor official brings minimum-wage push to Baltim...
The fight over the federal minimum wage is coming to Baltimore. The head of the U.S. Department of Labor plans to swing into town Tuesday to talk to low-wage workers about how they make — or don't...
Baltimore Seth D. Harris Barack Obama Our Daily Bread U.S. Department of Labor
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2013/05/12 09:36
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New college grads face difficult job market
Jackie Carter had it all mapped out. She would attend college year-round and graduate early, land a job in criminal justice, start paying off student loans, move into her own apartment and invest in...
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