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Mapping Job Loss Live! In Gloomy Color!

You might remember this graphic depicting the spread of economic stress in the U.S. when the AP did it a month ago. The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have done snapshot versions, too. But now it's caught on with the ...READ»

Job Market Giving You a Hard Time? Keep Your Pants On

The next time you're feeling frisky, consider the global job market. The World Watch Institute gave FastCompany.com a peek at the statistics from its new pay-per-view database, which stands to become a catchall for anyone interested ...READ»

Dow 10,000 and 10% Unemployment: A Dangerous Reciprocity That Signals Need for Change

Recently, both the Dow and the unemployment rate almost simultaneously broke historical milestones, one good (Dow 10,000) and one bad (unemployment 10%). The lock step ascent of these two metrics has continued since the beginning of ...READ»

Infographic of the Day: The Jobless Rate for People Like You

Some demographics have been hit hard by the recession--while others haven't.READ»

Nonsense At Work

Habitually struggling to find work:At last, signs that the economy is turning.  Or as the pundits say, it is returning to positive territory.What about you?  Are you in positive territory?I hope so because we humans have a ...READ»

Job Interview Tips: How to Ace the Job Interview and Get Hired - Even in a Recession

Get hired faster even in a recession! Once You Get the Job Interview, Here Are Your Next Steps...READ»

Tech Unemployment Bad, but Not That Bad

Earlier this month, hard drive maker Seagate became the latest tech firm to announce layoffs: 1100 cuts, or 2.5% of its workforce. But while unemployment in the technology sector accelerated in the first quarter of 2009, according ...READ»

The Six Most Fascinating Things on the Web This Week

Robot Makes Its Own Scientific Discovery Scientists at the U.K.'s Aberystwyth University gave a laboratory robot named Adam a database about yeast biology, articulated arms, and artificial intelligence, and it came back to them ...READ»

Ideas Are the Best Stimulus Package

With governments around the world shoveling money out of pubic treasuries in the hopes of stimulating their economies, how about summoning a modicum of creativity to build better mousetraps that consumers might actually want to buy? I mean even at 10% unemployment, that means 90% of the population still has a job and is buying stuff. If we can come up with a few good ideas, we can put people to work making things and, hopefully, sell a few more widgets at home and abroad.READ»

The Longest Line in NYC: Women for Hire Job Fair

We interrupt this program for a report from the cold, hard pavement outside your window. WATCH MOVIE if you can bear to ... A jobseeking friend invited me to join her at a Women for Hire Career Fair at the Sheraton New ...READ»

The Future looks promising

In these days of severe decline in economic activity when the very foundation of our economic system seems to be imploding, how can I say the future looks promising? It is true that we are experiencing some real changes to our ...READ»

7 Essential Steps to Surviving a Post-Layoff Existence

So you're one of the unlucky ones. The entire economy is crumbling around us, and with every single company in existence looking to cut costs and become more efficient, you were deemed to be expendable. It's a lousy situation, to be ...READ»

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Laid Off

In the span of 15 minutes on Tuesday I was laid off from my job managing MaineBusiness.com and given a new job as a night content producer for the Portland Press Herald. I went from working from 6am to 2pm, Monday through Friday and ...READ»

Unemployment: 10 Year High

The Boston Globe reports that the unemployment rate in Maine is the highest it has been in 10 years to 5.4 percent for May. Labor Commissioner Laura Fortman said last month's increase was "unusually large," adding that ...READ»

Italian Women Out of Work

According to a recent article by the BBC(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7337145.stm), Italy has one of the lowest rates of female employment in the European Union, with only 46 percent of women holding jobs.  That amounts ...READ»