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For example, a letter from a pastor may suffice. State law also limits the amount of information given out to employers. Brown said the bill can be tweaked and that the benefits far outweigh the concerns. The measure, which would cost the state about...
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The Dow Jones industrial average, powered higher all year by optimism that the economic recovery is finally for real, crossed 13,000 on Tuesday for the first time since May 2008. The last time the Dow was there, unemployment was 5.4 percent, and Lehman...
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Carnival revellers wearing costumes of bowling pins bearing the words "job" (R) and "pension" participate in the Torres Vedras parade February 21, 2012. The Portuguese have mostly quietly accepted reforms in the labour market, soaring unemployment and... View Photo »
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VoicePlate.com is a unique forum and has the potential to change how people search for careers and communicate ... We plan to work with the general workforce, active duty military members, veterans and military families to help them secure employment and work to reduce the overall unemployment rate.
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The new austerity measures demanded by creditors in return for the rescue loans follow two years of deepening misery, with the Greek economy in freefall and unemployment at a record high. Angry unions have called two separate protest rallies outside...
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U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings , R-Wash. , chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, in a message on his Web site, blamed Obama's energy policy for high gasoline prices, unemployment and slow economic recovery. Gasoline prices in the United States...
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If young people living in rural areas do not find enough incentives, profitable economic opportunities and attractive environments in which to live and work, they will continue to migrate to cities. This trend would not only contribute to the mega...
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A carnival reveller poses in front of a float depicting European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (L) giving water to Portuguese Prime Minister Passos Coelho (R), alongside Foreign Minister Paulo Portas and IMF delegation chief Paul Thomson... View Photo »
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Social unrest may reflect a variety of factors such as poverty, unemployment, and social injustice. Despite the many possible contributing factors, the timing of violent protests in North Africa and the Middle East in 2011 as well as earlier riots in 2008 coincides with large peaks in global food prices...
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"Job taker!" These are epithets that are too often hurled in our present political discussion. The slow pace of the economic recovery, and the persistence of high unemployment, has rightly focused our national dialogue on job creation. But many...
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Angry unions have called two separate protest rallies outside Parliament.On Tuesday, the 17-country eurozone approved Greece's second financial lifeline in less than two years, worth 130 billion euro (£100 billion), and agreed to impose a 107 billion...
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