Americans Work More, Watch Less TV on Weekends

July 4, 2011 by  
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NEW YORK (MainStreet) – If you spent six hours watching TV last weekend, congratulations: You’re less of a couch potato than the average American. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its annual American Time Use Survey Tuesday, which polled more than 13,000 Americans age 15 and up about their daily personal ... Continue Reading

Many Job Openings But Few New Hires

October 17, 2010 by  
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The real problem with the economy isn’t that there are too few jobs available, but rather that there are too many. When the recession began in December 2007, there were 4.4 million job openings, but that number dropped to less than 2 million in 2009 as the economy remained sluggish. Now, ... Continue Reading

How Many Jobs Have We Really Lost?

October 16, 2010 by  
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The recession may have ended in June of last year, but the job loss didn’t stop there. Between April 2009 and March 2010, the U.S. lost 2.2 million jobs, according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  That number, as CNN Money notes, is actually more than 350,000 higher ... Continue Reading

The Search: Hiring Is Up, but Job Hunt Will Test Class of 2010

May 23, 2010 by  
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THIS spring, college seniors are entering a better job market than the class of 2009 faced. Unfortunately, that is not saying much because 2009 was one of the worst years in the history of hiring. Sean Kelly Still, hiring of this year’s crop of graduates is up 5 percent over the ... Continue Reading

900,000 young people classed as ‘Neets’

May 20, 2010 by  
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Rising numbers of young people are without a job or college place after falling victim to the recession, figures show. By , Education Editor Almost one million 16- to 24-year-olds in England were classed as Neet – not in education, employment or training – in the first three months of the year, it was disclosed. The ... Continue Reading

Unemployment: what the experts say

May 12, 2010 by  
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Jobless figures have risen to the highest level since 1994, despite a 27,100 fall in claimants in April 2010. Unemployment in Britain has risen further beyond the 2.5 million mark and is now the highest in 15 years, according to the Office for National Statistics. At the same time, the ONS ... Continue Reading

Council loses ’68 years’ work to sickness’

April 23, 2010 by  
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Staff at a single council took the equivalent of 68 years off sick days in the last year at a cost to the taxpayer of £2.5 million, it has emerged. Published: 11:13AM BST 22 Apr 2010 Peterborough City Council has revealed that its 2,123 employees took a total of 25,082 ... Continue Reading

Preoccupations: Dreams vs. Reality While on a Sabbatical

April 5, 2010 by  
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“I NEED a sabbatical from my sabbatical,” I recently confided to a friend. I wasn’t joking. For some time, I had been feeling exhausted from being on work-leave. And this got me to thinking: if the word “sabbatical” derives from “Sabbath,” meaning “rest,” why was I so restless and ... Continue Reading

Unpaid overtime soars to ‘extreme’ levels, says TUC

February 26, 2010 by  
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The TUC’s survey says unpaid overtime is soaring, with teachers and lawyers doing as much as 17 hours of free work a week. Photograph: Image Source/Rex Features The number of people working “extreme” levels of unpaid overtime soared to almost 900,000 last year, with teachers and lawyers the most likely to ... Continue Reading

Middle class unemployed failed by job centres, Government admits

February 16, 2010 by  
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Job centre staff were unprepared for the hundreds of thousands of middle class workers who have lost their jobs in the recession, the Government has admitted. By Christopher Hope, Whitehall Editor Published: 10:00PM GMT 16 Feb 2010 A report published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) found that ... Continue Reading