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RGE – The Worst is yet to Come: Unemployed Americans Should Hunker Down for More Job Losses
Think the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening. While the official unemployment rate is already 10.2% and another 200,000 jobs were lost in October, when you include discouraged workers and partially employed workers the figure is a whopping 17.5%.
While losing 200,000 jobs per month is better than [...]
Microsoft to cut 800 more jobs – Nov. 4, 2009
Microsoft Corp. will eliminate 800 more positions from its workforce, the company announced Wednesday.
The company said the job cuts will be spread across multiple businesses and locations across the globe, but Microsoft would not specify when the layoffs would occur.
Those job cuts come on top of the 5,000 jobs the company said it was slashing [...]
Idled Tech Employees Embrace Retraining – BusinessWeek
After more than a year of unemployment, Heather Dobyns knew she needed to take some bold moves to stand out from the pack. In May 2008, she had lost her job selling printing services for Deluxe (DLX) in St. Louis. She was in her late 30s and her unemployment benefits were scheduled to run out [...]
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