Businesses Blast Higher Unemployment Insurance Costs

Businesses Blast Higher Unemployment Insurance Costs
Businesses hit with higher unemployment insurance costs under a new law are blasting the changes , saying higher costs could prevent them from hiring workers, jeopardize South Carolina’s economic recovery or even force them to leave the state.
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Unemployment and poverty fuel Arab revolt

Unemployment and poverty fuel Arab revolt
The events in Egypt and Tunisia as well as scattered similar incidents in Yemen, Sudan and Algeria appear to be a result of pent up sentiment about the failure of regional governments to tackle long-standing economic woes, on top of which are the festering unemployment and poverty.
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While unemployment drops nationally, Florida outlook remains bleak

While unemployment drops nationally, Florida outlook remains bleak
The national unemployment rate slipped from 9.4 percent to 9.0 percent from December 2010-January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday.
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Ind. unemployment changes worry workers, companies

Ind. unemployment changes worry workers, companies
The changes lawmakers will likely make to Indiana’s insolvent unemployment system concern construction worker Finis Patterson and business owner Judy Nagengast, though for different reasons.
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Mass. unemployment rate falls to 8.4 percent

Mass. unemployment rate falls to 8.4 percent
By Robert Gavin, Globe Staff The Massachusetts unemployment rate last month fell to its lowest level in more than a…
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Unemployment more harmful now compared to 1982

It hurts more to be unemployed now than the last time the jobless rate hit 10 percent.
Americans have more than triple the debt they had in 1982 and less than half the savings. They spend 10 weeks longer off the job. And a bigger share of them have no health insurance, leaving them one medical [...]

Unemployment to Stay Above 10 Percent in 2010

The economy continues to bleed jobs, even as GDP rebounds. Employment may be a lagging indicator, but job losses should have abated by now even if a lot of new jobs are not being added.
Coming off a deep recession, GDP growth should have been much stronger than the 2.8 percent recorded in the third quarter. [...]

Americas Employment and Unemployment Crisis

There is a great and pernicious irony going on today in the American economy (not the only pernicious irony, most likely) concerning the great gulf between available job openings and “unemployable” laid-off workers. This schism is a harrowing litmus test — or stress test, being the popular term of late — concerning our continuing slide [...]

Since the auto and construction industries can’t bring us out of this unemployment crisis how about drilling?

Why don’t we turn to the good ole oilfield to get us out of this mess? It sure as hell won’t be green jobs anytime soon so why don’t we start getting our own oil/gas out of the ground in the USA and stop relying on foreign oil? The overseas industry is thinking about taking [...]

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