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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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How to help a loved one in a financial bind
When someone you love is laid off, the news can feel debilitating to you, too. I grieve every time I get such news because I know how tough it will be. So I’d like to… -
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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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Leftovers for the needy: It’s not that hard
It never ceases to amaze me how difficult it can be to get some businesses to do the right thing. Donating leftover food is a good example. More than 14 million Americans were out of… -
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5 states OK’d for federal foreclosure-prevention aid
As many as 50,000 struggling homeowners in five states with high unemployment may receive help from a special $600 million federal fund intended to head off some foreclosures. State housing agencies in Ohio, North Carolina,… -
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U.S. plans more aid for jobless homeowners
In an acknowledgment that the foreclosure crisis is far from over, the Obama administration on Wednesday pumped $3 billion into programs intended to stop the unemployed from losing their homes. The housing market, which… -
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COBRA ends; insurance bill increases
Jennifer Richards of Park Ridge, Ill., is angry that her family’s monthly health insurance bill tripled in August to $1,250 after her husband lost his job and health benefits. But as bad as that is,… -
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Tax cuts that make a difference
It’s time to start talking about a tax cut. The economy is struggling mightily. Some 15 million people remain unemployed. The Federal Reserve has been slow to act and still is not doing much. The… -
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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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A record 30% of unemployed out of work at least a year
A government report out Friday is expected to show modest but continued improvement in the job market last month. But one segment of jobless Americans likely won’t feel much of a lift: the severely long-term… -
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Unemployed find old jobs now require more skills
The jobs crisis has brought an unwelcome discovery for many unemployed Americans: Job openings in their old fields exist. Yet they no longer qualify for them. They’re running into a trend that took root during… -
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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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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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Tax cut deal: How it affects you
Now that Congress has passed the Tax Hike Prevention Act of 2010, it will be sent to President Obama for his signature. And taxpayers will have some certainty about their tax situation, if only for… -
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Jobless couples manage to find holiday spirit
Brian and Salena Smith and their two toddlers had an awesome Christmas last year. Two good jobs, a sweet house in a new Southern California suburb, and bright dreams for 2010 made it so. He… -
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‘Doubling up’ in recession-strained quarters
For the three generations of the Maggi family crowded into a recession-beaten three-bedroom ranch house here, the tension from living on top of one another for the last 10 months sometimes erupts at unexpected moments.… -
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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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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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36,000 jobs added in January; unemployment rate falls to 9%
The unemployment rate dropped sharply last month to 9%, the lowest level in nearly two years. But the economy generated only 36,000 net new jobs, the fewest in four months. The January report illustrates how… -
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10 career paths that will be washed away soon
Economists believe that many of the jobs lost in the “great recession” will be coming back. Construction and high finance positions that were temporarily slashed, for example, are expected to steadily return. Regardless of the… -
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Free job-loss insurance, anyone?
Homebuilders are offering it to new buyers, and some of the country’s largest banks and mortgage lenders think it’s a win-win idea for shaky economic times: insurance programs that make borrowers’ mortgage payments for up… -
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Builders, banks offer free job-loss insurance to home buyers
Insurance programs that make borrowers’ mortgage payments for up to six months if they lose their jobs during an initial one- to two-year coverage period are gaining popularity. Home builders are offering it to new… -
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Nearly one in six in poverty in the U.S.; children hit hard, Census says
Nearly one in six Americans was living in poverty last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, a development that is ensnaring growing numbers of children and offering vivid proof of the recession’s devastating impact. The…
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