Day Laborers Go Home As Work In Us Dries Up - Boston Globe los angeles - for more than two years, otoniel lopez cortez arrived at the day labor center before 6:30 a.m. to wait for jobs painting houses. some weeks he earned a few hundred dollars, enough to pay his rent and bills and send money home to ... www.boston.com
Jan Moir: Glass Ceiling? We've Only Ourselves To Blame the have it all mums who wanted both babies and plum jobs as a legal right have only succeeded in scaring off employers and choking the flow of top promotions. www.mailonsunday.co.uk
126 To Lose Jobs With Mcs more than 120 memphis city schools employees will lose their jobs in the coming weeks to help the district meet a $41 million budget shortfall, supt. kriner cash said in a letter to employees friday. commercialappeal.com
Jobless Rate Soars To 6.1% - Cnn Money new york (cnnmoney.com) -- the unemployment rate soared to a nearly five-year high in august, topping 6%, as employers trimmed jobs for the eighth straight month, according to the latest government reading friday that came in weaker than forecasts ... money.cnn.com
Rebel Frank Field Leads Calls For Curbs On Migrants - Times Online the leading labour rebel, frank field, has teamed up with senior tories to demand a cap on the number of immigrants settling in britain. in a move that will alarm downing street, field will tomorrow become the first prominent labour figure to tackle ... business.timesonline.co.uk
Computer Crime Is Here To Stay; So Are Jobs To Combat It (ara) - what do a recent global crackdown on internet child pornography and the arrest of dennis rader, the infamous "btk" serial killer have in common with the sept. 11 attacks on america? www.carteretnewstimes.com
Why These Women And Top Jobs Aren't Mixing even alex lankester was surprised to be offered the job as international marketing director of wiley-blackwell, a large publishing house that produces scientific books and scholarly journals. www.timesonline.co.uk
Swaptree Trading Site Does Well While Doing Good - Auctionbytes.com things are looking good for swaptree, the online trading site that allows site users to swap books, dvds, cds and video games. site co-founders, greg boesel and mark hexamer, had reason to celebrate when swaptree officially turned one year old this ... www.auctionbytes.com
Dismal U.s. Jobs Not Bad Enough For Usd - Seekingalpha.com the jump in the august unemployment rate to a new 5-year high of 6.1% from 5.7% leaves little doubt to currency traders that the usd rally remains largely a manifestation of broadening economic weakness outside of the us , rather than any signs of ... seekingalpha.com
Beacon Hill Roll Call: House, Senate Vote To Keep Legal Service Help $$ For Inmates house 135-18, senate 33-4, overrode gov. patrick's $145,824 veto reduction (from 985,824 to 840,000) in funding for the massachusetts correctional legal services committee to provide civil legal assistance to inmates who have problems with their treatment in the state's prisons. supporters of keeping the $145,824 said that it is important to provide legal services to poor people in jail. www.wickedlocal.com
No Job Turnaround On Horizon - Cnn Money new york (cnnmoney.com) -- august was another bad month for the job market. but many economists also are predicting job losses to continue deep into 2009 as well. the government reported on friday that there were 84,000 job losses last month , worse ... money.cnn.com
Unemployment Rate Jumps Sharply For Eighth Straight Month, Hitting 6.1 ... - Miami Herald washington -- employers shed jobs in august for the eighth consecutive month, and the unemployment rate shot up to a higher-than-expected rate of 6.1 percent, the labor department reported friday. the jobs numbers released by the bureau of labor ... www.miamiherald.com
Land Acquisition For Public Good Is Valid: Court new delhi: land acquisition by a state government for development of a project to serve the larger public good will be legal and valid, the supreme court has held. “in case of an integrated and indivisible project, the project has ... www.thehindu.com
Labor Day 2008 wynnewood, pa - september 1 marks the 114th celebration of labor day. in 1894, congress passed an act making the first monday of each september a legal holiday to pay tribute to the social and economic achievements of the american worker. www.queenscourier.com
Fbi Crusade To Prosecute Old Racist Murder Cases Stalls - Chicago Sun-times washington — flanked by officials from the naacp and the southern poverty law center, fbi director robert mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations. the goal: to bring ... www.suntimes.com
Fannie, Freddie Capital Concerns Prompt Paulson To Take Control - Bloomberg sept. 7 (bloomberg) -- treasury secretary henry paulson decided to take control of fannie mae and freddie mac after a review found the beleaguered mortgage-finance companies used accounting methods that inflated their capital, according to people ... www.bloomberg.com
Jobless Rate Soars To 6.1% the unemployment rate soared to a nearly five-year high in august as employers trimmed jobs for the eighth straight month, the government reported friday. money.cnn.com
Ag To Decide If Company Broke Mississippi Law - Forbes attorney general jim hood's office is determining whether a new mississippi law was violated by howard industries in laurel, the site of the largest workplace immigration raid in u.s. history. "we'll look at what they've done and determine if it's a ... www.forbes.com