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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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