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PHL17's "In Focus" to Examine Unemployment, October 23, 2010
Staff reporterPHILADELPHIA – Saturday, October 23, 2010 – 6:30-7:00am On this Saturday's episode of "In Focus", Steve Highsmith focuses on unemployment and finding new opportunities and personal fulfillment during tough economic times. Joining Steve this week are...Tags: Television Stations, Event Planning, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Entertainment, Economy, Business and Finance
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Easton Area offering retirement incentives
Easton Area School District is offering some of its most experienced and highly paid employees $5,000 to resign or retire by June 1.
Memorandums of understanding with the teachers, Act 93 employees and administrative professionals were approved by the...Tags: Career and Workplace, Teaching and Learning, Layoffs and Downsizing, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Teachers
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Plant idling raises concerns about future of Sparrows Point
It's deja vu at Sparrows Point.
The Baltimore County plant once again faces wholesale layoffs and a possible sale.
The same story has played out every couple of years for the past decade at the steel plant, whose future remains in limbo.
The...Tags: China, Bethlehem Steel, Kevin Kamenetz, Unions, Economy, Business and Finance
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'I've been used so he could make his money'
WSBT-TV ReporterPLYMOUTH – Workers at the Stone Creek Homes plant in Marshall County said they were laid off without notice and they did not get their final paycheck. On Thursday new modular homes right off the line sat outside the Stone Creek Homes plant in...Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Layoffs and Downsizing, Employees, Job Layoffs
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Former Bethlehem Steel property to idle
The owner of the financially ailing Sparrows Point steel plant is idling operations there, warning 1,975 workers Thursday that they would be laid off starting next month. The news, which casts doubt on the future of the Baltimore County facility that was...Tags: Bethlehem Steel, Unions, Economy, Business and Finance, Science and Technology, Labor Legislation
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Unemployment rate is a numbers game in presidential race
It was kind of a buzz-kill moment. Earlier this month, at a town hall meeting in Township, Pa., Mitt Romney mentioned that the jobless rate had dropped a bit, from 8.2% to 8.1%. The audience started to applaud, but Romney stopped them. "Normally,...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Labor Markets, Labor Legislation, Employment, Career and Workplace
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Regional jobless rates in Michigan see big drop
LANSING - Michigan reports that the seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate dropped a full percentage point statewide and fell in all major labor markets. The April figures released Thursday show joblessness statewide at 8 percent, compared with 9...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Labor Markets, Employment, Career and Workplace
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Michigan Sees Jobless Rates Fall Around State
FOX 17 Morning ReporterMichigan has experienced some rough times in the job market, but a new report reveals just about every region in the state seeing increased job growth. The Department of Technology, Management and Budget released a breakdown of the state's 17 major...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Labor Markets, Career and Workplace, Employment, Netherlands
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Pratt & Whitney Picks Middletown For Key Engine Work
The Hartford CourantPratt & Whitney has decided to assemble some, and maybe the majority, of its engines for the Airbus A320 neo model — the largest booking of business by far for its new geared turbofan design — at its Middletown plant, an unexpected decision...Tags: Labor Markets, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Boeing Co., Aerospace Manufacturing
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After budget cut, Orange clerk's office to close early starting in July
The Orange County Clerk's Office soon will begin closing its doors to the public earlier as a result of new budget cuts scheduled to take effect July 1, officials said Friday. The budget recently signed by Gov. Rick Scott cuts clerks' budgets statewide...
Tags: Government Debt, Career and Workplace, Rick Scott, Budgets and Budgeting, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Skeleton crew cleans up at Big Huge Games in Timonium
Big Huge Games, a studio in Timonium that designed rich, immersive video games, has closed its office and only a skeleton crew of employees remained as its parent company in Rhode Island appears to have gone out of business, according to online reports. ...
Tags: Entertainment, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Baltimore County, Television Industry
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Schilling's video game company lays off 400
Curt Schilling's video-game company, 38 Studios, reportedly laid off most of its staff in Rhode Island and Maryland. The former Boston Red Sox pitcher was unavailable for comment after more than 400 full-time employees were laid off, the Boston Globe...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Executive Branch, Career and Workplace, Curt Schilling
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