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The Big Squeeze
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker looks at the stresses and strains faced by American workers as wages have stagnated, health and pension benefits have grown stingier, and job security has shriveled.… -
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Talking to Teens about Money - Seminar Lesson Plan Packet (English)
This PDF file provides guidance for teachers and team leaders. The packet contains a detailed curriculum, classroom activities and take home worksheets. -
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Talking to Teens about Money - Class Activities (Spanish)
Este archivo en PDF contiene traducciones en español de las actividades para hacer en clase y los ejercicios para hacer en casa tomados del plan de enseñanza en -
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Cuts to child-care subsidies thwart more job seekers
Able-bodied, outgoing and accustomed to working, Alexandria Wallace wants to earn a paycheck. But that requires someone to look after her 3-year-old daughter, and Ms. Wallace, a 22-year-old single mother, cannot afford child care. Last… -
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Looking for work? Unemployed need not apply
The last thing someone who is unemployed needs to be told is that they shouldn’t even apply for the limited number of job openings that are available. But some companies and recruiters are doing just… -
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College grads settle for jobs, if not careers
One year ago, the Class of 2009 left college and jumped into one of the worst job markets in history. Cautionary tales about the real world were quickly passed down to younger students: Searching six… -
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Work-at-home job scams thrive on economic trouble
Work-at-home opportunities were supposed to help Chester Mazzoni, Susan Reid and Terry Yeast make ends meet. The only one who made money was Mazzoni — and that stopped when a court-appointed receiver shut him down.… -
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Recession cut into employment for half of working adults, study says
The recession has directly hit more than half of the nation’s working adults, pushing them into unemployment, pay cuts, reduced hours at work or part-time jobs, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. The… -
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Teach your teen paycheck savvy
Congrats! Your kid landed a summer job in this tight, tight economy. Now, of course, he’ll have that $7.25 an hour burning a hole in his pocket. That’s where you step in: “Parents have a… -
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After job training, still scrambling for work
In what was beginning to feel like a previous life, Israel Valle had earned $18 an hour as an executive assistant to a designer at a prominent fashion label. Now, he was jobless and struggling… -
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Land a job: Promote the brand of you
Think branding is only for celebrities and cola companies? Think again. Today whatever reputation you have is spreading quickly across the Internet, thanks to Google, industry blogs, and social-networking sites. (Even failing to turn up… -
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Losing the dream, but saving the store
When John Andikian opened a convenience store in Tustin, Calif., he had big dreams. Dreams that had started 30 years earlier, when he talked with his father, a lifelong grocery worker, about someday owning… -
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Would-be interns pay thousands for coveted spot
Each year, thousands of college students descend on Washington for unpaid internships. It can be a nerve-racking process: sending out résumés, trying to make contacts, interviewing again and again. Increasingly, many of them are finding… -
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For unemployed over 50, fears of never working again
VASHON ISLAND, Wash. — Patricia Reid is not in her 70s, an age when many Americans continue to work. She is not even in her 60s. She is just 57. But four years after losing… -
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Hiring family or friends to work for you can be boon or bust
Donald Trump did it. So did entrepreneur Mike Repole and nutritionist Oz Garcia. Though the businesses they run are dramatically different, all have entered the same, often treacherous arena of hiring friends or family to… -
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Employers at 151K jobs; unemployment holds at 9.6%
Job growth accelerated in October, but the unemployment rate held steady, the government said Friday, the latest data pointing to an economy that is finally strengthening as the year nears its end. Employers added 151,000… -
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Ex-offenders struggle to find work
Kelly D. Brown left prison with one overriding mission - to never again let her hot temper lead to another stint behind bars. “I was so reckless when I was young,” said Brown, 32. -
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1.2 million people want a job but aren’t looking
A heartening jobs report last week masked an ominous statistic: Discouraged workers hit a record 1.2 million. Discouraged workers are those who want a job but aren’t counted in the labor force because they’ve stopped… -
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Your paycheck is about to shrink
Are you ready to give up $30 a month? That’s what may come out of your paycheck if—as expected—the Making Work Pay tax credit expires at the end of the year. The credit was enacted… -
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Unemployed, and likely to stay that way
The longer people stay out of work, the more trouble they have finding new work. That is a fact of life that much of Europe, with its underclass of permanently idle workers, knows all too… -
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Laid off twice by 24
Laid off twice by age 24? Absolutely. “A surprising number of employees in their early twenties may have already experienced multiple layoffs,” said David Morrison, managing director and founder of Twentysomething Inc., a marketing company… -
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Unemployment rate falls to 9.4% as employers add 103,000 jobs
The nation’s unemployment rate dropped to 9.4% last month, lowest level in 19 months. That was because more people found jobs, but also because some people gave up on their job searches. The Labor Department… -
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Get ready for (slightly) fatter paychecks
The most obvious sign of the economic recovery may be in your paycheck. As companies return to profitability, many plan to award employees with better raises in 2011 after years of stagnant wages, according to… -
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Should you check Facebook before hiring?
THE BIG IDEA: Is it ethical to base a hiring decision on a job candidate’s Facebook page? THE SCENARIO: Miranda Shaw, a manager at a leading consulting firm, is hiring for a senior analyst position.… -
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Recent grads finding jobs - in their living rooms
Each morning 26-year old Octavia Silva gets up, showers, puts on her business clothes, does her make up, and then starts her workday as an administrative assistant—from a table in her living room. Silva answers…
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