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Igniting the Growth of Jobs - Columnist Bob Herbert - NYTimes.com
"Incredibly, some 40,000 teachers have lost their jobs over the past year, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research."
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The latest unemployment rate for California is a knee-buckling 12.2 percent, the highest since World War II.
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Incredibly, some 40,000 teachers have lost their jobs over the past year, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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The Human Equation - Op-Ed Columnist Bob Herbert - NYTimes.com
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The joblessness the nation is experiencing is crushing any hope of a real economic recovery. With so many Americans maxed out on their credit cards and with the value of their homes deep in the tank, the only money available to spend in most cases is from paychecks.
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My choice would be a “Rebuild America” campaign that would put men and women to work repairing, maintaining, designing and rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure in the broadest sense — everything from roads and schools and the electrical power grid to innovative environmental initiatives and a sparkling new mass transportation network, including high-speed rail systems.
One of the ways of financing such an effort would be through the creation of a national infrastructure bank, which would provide federal investment capital for approved projects and use that money to leverage additional private investment.
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Tweeting Your Way to a Job - NYTimes.com
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The qualities that make someone a good social media maven — which include being available round-the-clock to anyone who writes — are different than the skills used by mainstream corporate publicists.
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Having a social media aficionado on staff is one way to create conversation about a brand, the same way hip-hop record executives in the 1990s used urban street teams to promote new musicians. And it is a rare example these days of a growth industry: Forrester Research, a research and marketing firm, has 12 analysts advising more than 100 companies on how to use social networks to get customers to do things like open bank accounts or buy more face cream.
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Longer Unemployment for Those 45 and Older - NYTimes.com
There but for the grace of God...
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Older workers must also battle stereotypes about their energy and adaptability, as well as the reality that their health care costs are higher.
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Dr. Lahey found that workers under 50 were more than 40 percent more likely to be called for an interview.
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Teaching Online Journalism » Advice for journalism students now
Good advice for students.
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At a minimum, new hires need to know how things like blogs, rss feeds, twitter and google alerts work just to leverage them in reporting and to monitor the beat online. But you also have to be confident and competent enough to grab a camera and a laptop and run to the scene of a fire when you’re the only one around. Oh, and while you still need to be able to craft that compelling narrative for tomorrow’s front stoop, you also need to write cleanly and quickly on deadline for the Web.
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there are whole clubhouses of better, more experienced writers looking for jobs today because just being a “reporter” isn’t enough.
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When a Job Disappears, So Does the Health Care - NYTimes.com
The silent crisis - the loss of health care that accompanies job loss.
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As jobless numbers reach levels not seen in 25 years, another crisis is unfolding for millions of people who lost their health insurance along with their jobs, joining the ranks of the uninsured.
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Most people are covered through the workplace, so when they lose their jobs, they lose their health benefits. On average, for each jobless worker who has lost insurance, at least one child or spouse covered under the same policy has also lost protection, public health experts said.
Obama Pledges Public Works on a Vast Scale - NYTimes.com
Overview of Obama's public works proposal.
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the country lost 533,000 jobs in November alone, bringing the total number of jobs lost over the past year to nearly 2 million
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Mr. Obama’s remarks showcased his ambition to expand the definition of traditional work programs for the middle class, like infrastructure projects to repair roads and bridges, to include new-era jobs in technology and so-called green jobs that reduce energy use and global warming emissions.
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MediaShift Idea Lab . Swimming Lessons for Journalists | PBS
Reenvisioning a career in journalism.
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for media veterans, this downturn does feel similar to the widespread closures of coal mines and steel mills 25-30 years ago. What can we do with our outdated skills?"
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for media veterans, this downturn does feel similar to the widespread closures of coal mines and steel mills 25-30 years ago. What can we do with our outdated skills?"
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