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Unemployment slips to 9.7 percent
The Swampby Don Lee The unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to 9.7 percent in January from 10 percent in the prior month, but employers eliminated another 20,000 net jobs over the month, the government said today in a report that shows the......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Business, Wages and Pensions, Employers, Corruption
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162,000 jobs added, unemployment holds
The Swampby Don Lee The American economy added 162,000 jobs in March, the biggest burst of hiring in three years, the Labor Department said today. The unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent, the level where it has stood for the......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Wages and Pensions, Employers, Employment, Finance
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Fears crawl into minds of investors
Call it the "cockroach theory." It's the assumption among investors that if one cockroach takes you by surprise, there are more to come, even if you see no sign of another at the moment. You apply the same thinking to investing as you apply at home....Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Interior Policy, Loans
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On immigration, ghosts of Christmas past
WASHINGTON -- Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment. It also is an economic manifesto that Dickens hoped would hit with "twenty thousand times the force" of a political tract. It concerned a 19th-century debate...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Philosophy, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Heritage Foundation, Illegal Immigrants
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Complaining CEOs need to take a hike
I took a walk early Wednesday morning. Azaleas and dogwoods were in bloom. Green-again trees and shrubs were damp, dripping from Tuesday's rain. A zillion birds were singing, and even the starlings sounded sweet. The Orioles had won another game. A...
Tags: Moody's Corporation, National Government, Government, Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC, Connecticut Labor Markets
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Jobless-claim process breeds frustration
In 2009, as Florida's labor market slid into a sinkhole, I wrote this about the state unemployment system. "People seeking aid from the Agency for Workforce Innovation say the office's phone lines are constantly busy or go unanswered and that clients...
Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Unemployment, Politics, Consumers
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Homebuilders gain from shortage of existing inventory
It's been a long time since Wall Street analysts were on conference calls with publicly traded homebuilders, congratulating executives on a great quarter. But that's what's been happening, as one publicly held national homebuilder after another has...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Employment, Ryland Group Incorporated, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Inventories
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Gov. Tom Corbett blames workers, again, for state's job growth fiasco
When Tom Corbett was running for governor in 2010, he argued that the business community was suffering because Pennsylvania's workers were too lazy to wean themselves from the unemployment benefits being extended by those nasty Democrats in Washington....
Tags: Entertainment, Government, Elections, MSNBC (tv network), Criminals
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Europe has no exit
WASHINGTON -- For most Americans, Europe is out of sight and out of mind. We figure that the worst of its debt crisis has passed. Italy has a new government. To mute social unrest, some countries are slightly relaxing austerity policies. The European...
Tags: Government Debt, Bonds, Economy, Business and Finance, European Debt Crisis, European Central Bank
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Stocks expected to 'melt up' on stimulus expectations
Convinced that the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are about to ride to the rescue, investors looked past the struggling economy on two continents Friday and pushed stocks to levels not seen since before the financial crisis started raging...
Tags: European Central Bank, Federal Reserve, Employment Opportunities, Stock Market, Employment
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Kingsley Guy: South Florida economic future looks good
As Mark Twain noted, history doesn't repeat itself, but "sometimes it rhymes," and South Florida may be in for one of those rhyming moments as it emerges from the economic doldrums of the past half decade. Turn the clock back a hundred years: Henry...Tags: Natural Disasters, Mark Twain, Railway Transportation, Railway Industry, Port Everglades
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The big question: Raises
So I hear about this guy named Mike Michalowicz, who has this idea that companies should institute "library hours," a chunk of time each day when everyone in the office shuts up, unplugs from the Internet and focuses on work.
My first reaction was,...Tags: University of Chicago, Arts and Culture, Libraries, The Office (tv program), Rex Huppke
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