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BlackBerry Fires 250 More Employees in Turnaround Effort
By Seth Fiegerman BlackBerry (originally RIM) laid off 250 more employees on Tuesday as part of a continued effort to turnaround the company. The layoffs, which were first reported by Bloomberg on Thursday, affected employees at BlackBerry’s product testing facility … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackberry, business, Canada, jobs, mobile computing, RIM, technology, unemployment
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AT&T hiring 200-plus employees in South Florida
By Samantha Bookman AT&T (NYSE: T) is opening two new retail locations in Miami and hiring 235 employees for locations between Key West and Vero Beach, the carrier announced Monday. More than half of the openings are newly created jobs. … Continue reading
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Tagged AT&T, call center, cellullar, employment, Florida, jobs, networks, opportunity, technology, wireless, work
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Black Unemployment Drives ‘Perpetual, Slow-Moving Recession’
By Artgur Delaney Tatia Pritchett’s 2002 Hyundai Sonata blew a tire early on a Friday morning in June when she was on her way to work. “I was driving and all of a sudden, KAPOW,” she said. She pulled over and … Continue reading
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Understand how being unemployed can endanger not just yourself but those you love. Understand how we need to raise the minimum wage. Living on a $9.00 the minimum wage would still be extremely hard for families to survive but it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bureau of Labor Statistics, economy, education, employment, jobs, labor, Living wage, minimum wage, money, poverty, stress, unemployment, United States, Wage
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Part-Time Workers Say Schedules Are Getting More Erratic
By Marilyn Geewax In the 1980s, a popular fast-food commercial touted chicken-breast sandwiches — and mocked chicken nuggets sold by competitors. In the ad, a competitor’s doofus clerk explains nuggets. “All the parts are crammed into one big part,” he said. … Continue reading
McJobs Are the Future: Why You Should Care What Fast Food Workers Earn
By Jordan Weissmann As I wrote earlier today, the corporate brass at McDonald’s seem to believe that in order to survive on what they pay their restaurant workers, you need a second job. And hey, credit where it’s due: they’re probably … Continue reading
Employment Discrimination Pushes Felons Onto Food Stamp Rolls, Increasing Program’s Costs
By Saki Knafo By refusing to hire people who have been convicted of crimes, employers may be adding billions of dollars to the total cost of the country’s ballooning food assistance program. Citing data from the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, … Continue reading
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Tagged Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Dean Baker, employment, Employment discrimination, felony, food, job discrimination, jobs, republican, Snap, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, U.S. Department of Agriculture, United States, United States Department of Agriculture
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Walmart Threatens To Shut Down Stores If DC Passes Living Wage Bill
By Aviva Shen Walmart fought hard to persuade DC residents to let it open stores in the district. But now the retail giant is threatening to walk away from three planned sites if the DC City Council passes a “living wage” … Continue reading
Last Week in Poverty: The Unfinished March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
By Greag Kaufmann “[African-Americans] must march from the rat-infested, overcrowded ghettos to decent, wholesome, unrestricted residential areas disbursed throughout our cities…. They must march from the play areas in crowded and unsafe streets to the newly opened areas in the … Continue reading
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