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Credit Checks Trap Jobless in Financial Spiral

(Newser) - For many unemployed Americans, a new trend is keeping the prospect of a new job out of reach: detailed credit checks of prospective employees. Once used mostly for government positions, cheap credit checks are now routine at private employers seeking to cull huge applicant pools. Businesses say they're just...

Dow Off 25 Ahead of July Jobs
 Dow Off 25 Ahead of July Jobs 
MARKETS
Aug 6, 2009 3:38 PM CDT

Dow Off 25 Ahead of July Jobs

Monthly unemployment report will show recovery's progress

(Newser) - Stocks closed lower today ahead of a July unemployment report due tomorrow, the Wall Street Journal reports. Procter & Gamble weighed on the Dow with a 4.7% decline, over doubts about its sales strategy. The Dow fell 25 points to close at 9,256. The Nasdaq lost 20 points,...

Dow Ends 4-Day Run, Dips 39
 Dow Ends 4-Day Run, Dips 39 
MARKETS
Aug 5, 2009 3:15 PM CDT

Dow Ends 4-Day Run, Dips 39

Financials rally against broader slump

(Newser) - Stocks fell today on dour data, though some financial firms rallied against the broader slump, the Wall Street Journal reports. The private sector lost 371,000 jobs in July, and the Institute for Supply Management’s index of non-manufacturing activity fell to 46.4 from 47.0 in June. Nonetheless,...

Unemployed Grad Sues College for Tuition

Unable to find work, New Yorker wants her $70K back

(Newser) - After months of looking for work, fed up New Yorker Trina Thompson is suing her college for the $70,000 she spent on tuition. Monroe College's Office of Career Advancement hasn't done enough to help her find employment, the 27-year-old spring graduate claims in a suit filed in Bronx Supreme...

1.5M Jobless Will Lose Benefits by Dec.

(Newser) - As many as 1.5 million Americans will lose unemployment benefits by the end of the year, reports the New York Times. Some 9 million Americans currently receive an average of $300 a week in unemployment, and many in the current recession have failed to find work for a year...

Detroit's Fall Wallops Canada
 Detroit's Fall Wallops Canada 
Aug 1, 2009 5:39 PM CDT

Detroit's Fall Wallops Canada

(Newser) - The collapse of Detroit has turned its Canadian counterpart into a veritable ghost town, the Economist reports. Located just across the Detroit River in Ontario, Windsor depends heavily on the Big Three, and now claims Canada’s highest unemployment rate at 14.4%. But Ontario’s problems go beyond “...

Career-Switchers Flock to Teacher-Training Programs

Unemployment helps drive applications

(Newser) - With unemployment soaring, interest is booming in teacher-training programs for people switching careers, the Washington Post reports. This year, a 20-city retraining program saw applications climb 30%; in many areas there’s more interest than jobs available, outside of science, math, and physical education. The surge could help avert likely...

Silicon Valley Unemployed Turn From Tech

With jobs in short supply, many shift to health care, energy

(Newser) - After holding its own against the economic tide, the tech industry is hurting—and many jobless in Silicon Valley are heading to other sectors, the Wall Street Journal reports. One group that helps job-seekers grew to capacity this year, from 180 to 225 members, with 450 on the waiting list;...

Older White Men Take Big Hit From Recession

Middle-aged workers hurt as unemployment hits 70-year high

(Newser) - Typically it’s the young who lose their jobs in a recession, but not in the current slowdown. Aging white workers at the theoretical peak of their earning power are losing their jobs this time around—and they can’t find new ones, USA Today reports. The jobless rate for...

Biden: Recovery Act Is Working
 Biden: Recovery Act Is Working 
OPINION
Jul 26, 2009 10:07 AM CDT

Biden: Recovery Act Is Working

Critics attacking 'pet programs' have 'misconstrued' the effort

(Newser) - Those who dismiss the Recovery Act as “being spent on pet programs” are wrong, writes the man tasked with administering it. Writing in a New York Times op-ed, VP Joe Biden contends that the stimulus has “brought us back from the precipice.” Two-thirds of it “goes...

'09 Grads Picky Despite Grim Jobs Market

Below-par jobs rejected as grads wait for economy to rebound

(Newser) - Many of this year's college grads are confounding career advisers by rejecting suggestions that they can't afford to be choosy about what job to take in a recession, the New York Times reports. The grads say they don't want to be forced into less-than-ideal jobs and career paths by economic...

Strapped States Fall Behind on Unemployment Checks

(Newser) - Years of tax and budget cuts have left the nation's unemployment system badly weakened just as it's most needed, the New York Times reports. At least a million applications are still stuck in the system and many applicants have to wait months for their first check. Sixteen states have...

Newt: Obama's Misguided Health Plan Will 'Kill Jobs'

(Newser) - Newt Gingrich lashed out today against President Obama’s health care plan, saying the nation should deal with crushing unemployment first, Politico reports. “America does not work if Americans are not working,” he said. “Getting Americans working should be the number one priority.” Gingrich called for...

'Recession-Proof' Job Is a Myth: Experts

(Newser) - If the downturn has you considering a “recession-proof” job like teaching or medicine, think again, Greg Burns writes in the Chicago Tribune. The recession has affected all sectors, from layoffs and lower enrollment at educational institutions to dwindling state budgets choking civil servants. “It’s a question of...

Yoga Retreats See Karmic Convergence in Recession

Ashrams enjoying newfound popularity

(Newser) - Many left unemployed or weary by recession are heading to yoga retreats, where they get meals, lodging, spiritual education, and quiet reflection for some chores and a low fee. “I figured if I stayed for a year, the economy would be warming up by then, and I could head...

Recession Will Cost More Jobs, End 'Before Long': Fed

(Newser) - The Federal Reserve is confident the general economy is turning around but still pessimistic on the jobs part, the Wall Street Journal reports. In June meeting minutes issued today, those gathered agreed that data since April “indicated that the economic contraction was slowing and that the decline in activity...

Stimulus Cash Isn't Making It to Hard-Hit Minorities

African-Americans, Hispanics pummeled by recession

(Newser) - With unemployment at 14.7% among African Americans and 12.2% among Hispanics, the recession is hitting minority communities particularly hard. But as is often the case with so-called “colorblind” spending, stimulus funds, intended to be equal-opportunity, aren’t making it to these groups. The government must “start...

Obama: Expect Jobless Rate to Rise Further

Hiring 'typically lags' after recovery begins

(Newser) - President Obama expects unemployment to continue to “tick up” for a few months, Reuters reports. “We have seen some stabilization in the financial markets, and that’s good, because that means that companies can borrow and banks are starting to lend again,” he said today. But “...

Paralyzed Dems Ignore Slow-Burn Crises: Krugman

(Newser) - When the economic crisis turned terrifying last winter, Washington finally got its act together and passed a massive stimulus package. But now, writes New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, the US faces a slower but more dangerous "jobless recovery" over the next few years and an "utterly terrifying"...

Recession Delivers Double Whammy to Legal Aid Offices

(Newser) - The recession has crippled funding for legal aid even as it has bumped up the number of people requesting representation, McClatchy reports. Though the federal government ramped up spending this year—and plans an even bigger increase for 2010—state funding and private donations have cratered, forcing legal aid to...

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