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 Bush: Auto Bailout
'Not Ready' 

Deal seems to be grinding gears

Dec 15, 08 3:58 AM CST
(Newser) - The federal auto industry bailout appeared to be stuck in neutral as President Bush warned today that a deal is not imminent. "We're not quite ready to announce that yet," Bush told reporters on a plane to Afghanistan. Lawmakers expected the administration to quickly reallocate part of the... More »

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Bush administration • US economy • auto industry • Big Three • bailout • job • George W. Bush • financial crisis • Wall Street bailout • auto bailout

Is Your Castoff Their Cross?

$1B in Western clothes flood poorer nations
and may undercut businesses

Dec 14, 08 8:20 PM CST
(Newser) - When you gave away last year's clothes, you probably didn't think that poor nations would pay big bucks for them. Yet castoffs are a $1 billion business, the Spectator reports, and may be threatening African cotton growers by flooding their nascent markets. Oxfam argues that its castoffs create jobs—washers,... More »

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Africa • fashion • Salvation Army • sellers • job • second-hand clothing • cotton

 Jobless Claims 
 Hit 26-Year High 


338,000 more people claimed benefits last week

Dec 11, 08 8:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Some 58,000 jobless Americans filed their first request for unemployment benefits last week, pushing both the number of first-time filers (573,000) and number of people collecting benefits (4.43 million) to 26-year highs, MarketWatch reports. The post-Thanksgiving week is traditionally high in first-time claims, but rapid layoffs and... More »

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layoffs • unemployment • job market • unemployment benefits • job • financial crisis

 Making the Best of a Layoff 

Losing a job can open window for 'career makeover'

Dec 6, 08 9:21 PM CST
(Newser) - How to survive a layoff? With more Americans facing that question, Newsweek rounds up some advice from success stories and career counselors. The advice is of the usual sort—take a deep breath to reassess, get some training or more education, and network. But it also notes that community colleges... More »

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layoffs • unemployment • training • job market • job • career

Top Grads Flood Nonprofit
for 'Lowly' Teaching Jobs

Job-hungry grads swamp nonprofit org

Dec 6, 08 5:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Students from the nation’s elite colleges are in hot pursuit of low-paying, high-stress jobs, the Washington Post reports. Inspired by Barack Obama’s message of hope and disillusioned by a battered Wall Street, prospective graduates have boosted applications to Teach for America alone by 50%. “I don’t... More »

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education • Barack Obama • job • Teach for America • students • public service

ANALYSIS

 US Jobs Picture
 Even Worse Than It Looks 

6.7% unemployment figure doesn't count those not working or looking for work

Dec 5, 08 1:45 PM CST
(Newser) - As bad as today’s jobs report seemed, it actually soft-pedals the US employment situation, David Leonhardt writes in the New York Times. In November, 251,000 workers lost their jobs, driving the unemployment rate to 6.7%. But “unemployed” describes only individuals actively looking for work, and the... More »

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labor • employment • unemployment • job • downturn • financial crisis

 AT&T Hacks 12,000 Jobs 

The telecom says its mobile and broadband divisions are continuing to grow

Dec 4, 08 8:10 AM CST
(AP) - AT&T is cutting 12,000 jobs, or 4% of its workforce, mostly in the landline segment that has lost market share to cell phones, cable operators, and Internet calling options, reports the AP. AT&T, which has cut more than 25,000 jobs so far this year, said it... More »

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layoffs • phone service • Internet phone • AT&T • job • mobile phones

 Public Works Eyed 
 as Economic Jumpstart 

Economists increasingly look to infrastructure spending for job creation

Nov 9, 08 5:11 PM CST
(Newser) - Once dismissed as too slow to address America’s quick slide into crisis, New Deal-esque public works projects are becoming increasingly attractive as long-term economic troubles look likely to set in, the Los Angeles Times reports. Infrastructure spending will likely be a major component of the upcoming Obama-backed, multibillion-dollar stimulus... More »

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infrastructure • New Deal • economic stimulus package • job • financial crisis


 NBC Pages 
 Seek Bigtime 
 on $10/Hour 

Ted Koppel, Regis Philbin alums of yearlong program

Oct 13, 08 6:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Screaming girls, predawn starts, and 6-day weeks are a lot to handle on $10 an hour—but NBC pages see success at the end of the tunnel, the New York Times reports. They know that hours of smiling schlep work—think photocopies and coffee—have led luminaries like Regis Philbin... More »

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NBC • broadcasting • Regis Philbin • Michael Eisner • Rockefeller Center • job • college graduates • Ted Koppel • page • Jack McBrayer

Auto Giants Press Congress for $25B Loan

Credit pinch, oil prices could cost thousands of jobs, execs say

Sep 18, 08 9:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The CEOs of US auto giants seem to have convinced some in Congress they, too, need billions in federal loans, the Detroit Free Press reports, though it’s uncertain if they’ll get the $25 billion they’re asking for. High oil and commodity prices and tightened credit threaten jobs... More »

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Chrysler • General Motors • Ford • lobbying • auto industry • Big Three • loan • bailout • federal loans • job

 Unemployment Rate Hits 
 5-Year High of 6.1%

Factory workers hit hardest as unforeseen fall in jobs stuns economy

Sep 5, 08 8:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jobless figures came in worse than expected today, sending the unemployment rate to a nearly five-year high of 6.1%, Bloomberg reports. The US lost 84,000 jobs in August, the eighth straight month of declines, raising the specter of a worsening economic slowdown. The jump in unemployment, which was... More »

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employment • recession • unemployment • consumer spending • Department of Labor • job

 Farms Fuel Boom in US Exports

Strengthening dollar could trim growth of sales abroad

Aug 18, 08 9:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Worldwide demand for grain and a weak US dollar helped drive exports up 7.1% in the first half of the year, providing a respite from the barrage of negative economic news. But experts warn the commodity-driven rise could be brief, reports the New York Times. Export surges of... More »

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international trade • corn • trade deficit • manufacturing • commodities • US exports • job • soybeans • industry

Travel

 Bizarro Travel-Industry Jobs 

Gigs that straddle the line between necessary and absurd

Jun 25, 08 2:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - From Parisian sewer guides to a coconut safety engineer in St. Thomas, some travel industry jobs straddle the line between necessary and absurd. Travel and Leisure highlights some of the strangest.
  1. Tourism ambassador, Japan. Diplomacy never looked so soft and cuddly after Japan appointed elder statesfeline Hello Kitty for
... More »

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travel • Japan • tourism • list • Hello Kitty • Lego • Venice • job • karaoke

 Oil Price Spike
 Brings Jobs Back to US 

Rising costs curb manufacturers' outsourcing

Jun 13, 08 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - As costs for overseas production and shipping soar, US companies are growing reluctant to outsource manufacturing—and some are even bringing their plants back to America, the Wall Street Journal reports. “In a world of triple-digit oil prices, distance costs money," said an economist. But it’s not... More »

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outsourcing • factory • manufacturing • oil price • job market • transport • job

commentary

 Prof Grapples With
 Fate: Teaching Dolts 

'I am the man who has to lower the hammer,' he admits

May 25, 08 1:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - An English professor at a small US college admits that half his job is killing students' dreams—dreams that they can write, think, or even form a sentence, he writes anonymously in the Atlantic. Yet more American jobs require college credits, and his role is to force Joyce and Faulkner... More »

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education • college • continuing education • adult education • college tuition • job • career

 Interview Goofs
 You Can't Make Up 

Smelling your armpits, admitting you're headed to the bar are not ways to get a job

May 15, 08 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Do research, don't lie, be professional: Interview tips seem basic enough to follow, but CNN reports the many job seekers have committed serious gaffes we all should learn from:
  • Asking interviewer to leave office so you can take a call
  • Admitting you may quit job if your uncle dies
... More »

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list • job search • job interviews • job

(Newser) - US employers cut far fewer jobs in April than in recent months and the unemployment rate dropped to 5%, a better-than-expected showing that nonetheless still revealed strains in the nation's crucial labor market. For the fourth month in a row, the economy lost jobs, the Labor Department reported today. But... More »

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unemployment • job

Good Job,
Bad Job

A look at extreme differences in the work experience, from
FedEx to Patagonia

Apr 21, 08 1:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - There's a stark divide between good and bad employers in America today, and you don't want to be on the wrong side of it. In a New York Times excerpt from his new book, Steven Greenhouse compares FedEx and Patagonia. FedEx forces workers who deliver packages to be "independent... More »

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work • Patagonia • FedEx • job

Streamlining AT&T Plans 4,600 Layoffs

TV, wireless hires will offset white-collar landline losses

Apr 18, 08 2:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - As it adjusts its business model to lowered demand for landlines, AT&T will lay off 4,600 employees, the Wall Street Journal reports. The company plans to create about the same number of new wireless, broadband, and TV jobs, a trade-off that will create savings through dropping more senior,... More »

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broadband Internet • wireless • layoffs • AT&T • job

Small-Business Confidence at 28-Year Low

With sales slowing, owners sweat inflation, rising energy costs

Apr 9, 08 10:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Slowing sales, rising inflation, and skyrocketing energy costs have small-business owners cutting back on hiring and tightening their spending as they brace for a continuing economic slowdown, USA Today reports. A National Federation of Independent Business survey puts small-business confidence last month at its lowest quarterly point since 1980. More »

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recession • credit crisis • job • National Federation of Independent Business

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