Layoff And Unemployment News

The GOP (@gop) and especially the GOP House of Representatives (@houseGOP) under the ‘leadership’ of Speaker John Boehner (@speakerboehner) have performed a remarkable feat of financial destruction to millions of unemployed and especially the long-term job seeker. While the Senate has passed an extension of unemployment that would last until the end of May, the […]

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layofflist on December 4th, 2013

The following is a guest post from Kimberly Green that was originally published at http://www.onlinecolleges.net/career-resources/surviving-layoffs . The job market is a difficult path for many graduates in a sluggish economy and those with jobs still have the fear of layoffs hanging over their heads. Kimberly’s article offers some suggestions on how to best traverse a layoff. Hopefully […]

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by Marian Wang ProPublica, Sep. 11, 2013, 12 a.m. This story was co-published with The Chronicle of Higher Education. Shauniqua Epps was the sort of student that so many colleges say they want. She was a high achiever, graduating from high school with a 3.8 GPA and ranking among the top students in her class. […]

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