Blogs Posts on "Unemployment"

Today in Washington D. C. - Nov 12, 2009 - Post-American Democrats Don't Care What the People Want by ARRA News Service on Nov 12, 2009Congress is in recess until Monday. Many of us are feeling these days: can they just stay home even longer? The Senate will then resume consideration of H.R. 3082, the fiscal year 2010 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs (Milcon-VA) appropriation...

Workaholics go to meetings Chapter 2: Nice and Easy (part 1) by Fired! on Nov 12, 2009Read Other Chapters here Sometime deep into a closed door meeting it was decided that employees must be kept happy in their workplace. There was much debate about what mechanism would be used in this endeavor, but one fact was undebatable. Any benefi...

Election Impact by Donklephant on Nov 12, 2009The Obama administration is reacting to recent events: Item 1: The public feud with Fox News ended with the premature departure of Communications Director Anita Dunn and the follow-up announcement that President Obama will grant an interview with Fox...

You did WHAT? by Fired! on Nov 11, 2009Welcome to our first installment of “You did WHAT?” where we discuss the latest news in the world of stupidity that leads to people being fired. First up today, Larry Jones has been fired from Feed The Children, the very foundation he st...

Better LATE than never by Fired! on Nov 11, 2009I grew tired of my job and really wanted to quit but I couldn’t afford to go without a paycheck. I’ve been trying to get fired for the past 6 weeks. I pulled out all the tricks in the book: I was late all the time, missed meetings, ignore...

Introduction: You did WHAT? by Fired! on Nov 11, 2009What I’ve realized since I started writing this blog is that there are a lot of firings in the news… every day there’s a story about a policeman or a teacher or a janitor doing something to get themselves fired. Needless to say the...

No Joke: Nota Bene for 9 November 2009 by Scholars & Rogues on Nov 10, 2009Well I figured I’d give you all a break and spare you the wacky and profane puns and snark. I’m going to directly quote a single line or phrase from each of the links; the quote may have little or nothing to do with the subject. Enjoy! &#...

US Stressed Out by Conservative Blogs Central on Nov 10, 2009...

Broader Measure of U.S. Unemployment Stands at 17.5% by Al's Offerings on Business, Economy & Career on Nov 9, 2009In all, more than one out of every six workers - 17.5 percent - were unemployed or underemployed in October. The previous recorded high was 17.1 percent, in December 1982.

Unemployment in Spain up 2.6 percent by Global Crisis News on Nov 9, 2009Unemployment in Spain grew for a third successive month as it went up by 2.6 percent in October. According to reports by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics, unemployment was on the rise as the number of unemployed people increased by 98,90...