Tag Archives: Unemployment

Silicon Valley Revitalized

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Silicon Valley booming with higher incomes, housing prices, but middle class, poor left behind SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Jobs, income and investment keep soaring in Silicon Valley, but the growth is...

Unemployment Extension 2014 on Trial

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Many needy Americans, as many as 1.3 million, lost the right to unemployment wages over the Christmas holidays. But now a renewal of this for at least three months is the talk of the town. President...
    






Welcome To Age 50: Top Work And Purpose Tips

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11 Steps To Happiness At Work As the last of the boomers begin to hit the half-century mark in January, we offer 50 tips for turning 50. Watch for our series each day this week, covering money,...
    






Welcome To The New Startup Nation

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The following guest post is by Juan Cartagena, founder and CEO of Traity, which measures people´s personal strengths.  Context: I am from Spain, a country with 25% unemployment and 47% youth...
    






Russia’s Economy Is Decelerating Sharply, But It’s Still Close To Full Employment

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Russia’s economy has had a lousy 2013. Estimates of GDP growth have been getting smaller and smaller with each passing week. The current consensus is for full-year growth of 1.4%, but given the...
    






Paul Krugman’s Excellent Point About Uber’s Surge Pricing

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Paul Krugman is using Uber’s surge pricing as an example, as something to bolster a core part of the Keynesian economic model. But that’s fine for he’s doing it really rather well. The basic point is...
    






HP cutting 1,124 jobs in the U.K., says report

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Layoffs are a part and parcel of a successful business. But if the layoffs rise to more than a thousand, the company suddenly becomes the center of attention, and, sometimes, criticism. Such is the...

Leap Gesture Controller garners Huge Developer Community

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Leap unveiled their very cool $69.99 motion controller two month ago. The feedback from the developers has been enormous. Over 26,000 want to develop for the Leap controller. Developers would...