WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits rose by a less-than-expected 18,000 last week to 366,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis, a Labor Department report showed on Thursday. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast initial claims...
JOHANNESBURG AFP — The persistent high rate of unemployment is the weakest point in South Africa's post-apartheid economy, with the education system failing to produce skilled workers, the OECD said on Tuesday. In a report unveiled in the financial capital Johannesburg, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development...
JOHANNESBURG AFP — A persistently high rate of unemployment is the weakest point in South Africa's post-apartheid economy, with the education system failing to produce skilled workers, the OECD said on Tuesday. In a report unveiled in the financial capital Johannesburg, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development...
BEIJING AFP — Chinese police in a remote northwestern city have broken up 12 terrorist cells this year as part of the nation's pre-Olympic security blitz, state-run press said on Wednesday. The announcement is the latest in a series of statements aimed at highlighting what China says is...
BAGHDAD AFP — Finance Minister Bayan Jabr Solagh said on Monday that Iraq's booming oil wealth holds the key to peace and urged foreign investors to take part in huge projects planned by his war-ravaged country. With state revenues quadrupled since the US-led invasion of 2003 and amid...
IT'S been a long time since Gordon Brown woke up to find himself ahead in the polls. But our survey shows Labour is on course to win in Glasgow East and see off the challenge from Alex Salmond's Scottish Nationalists. The seat is...
IT'S been a long time since Gordon Brown woke up to find himself ahead in the polls. But our survey shows Labour is on course to win in Glasgow East and see off the challenge from Alex Salmond's Scottish Nationalists. The seat is...
WASHINGTON -- Former Republican Sen. Phil Gramm isn't the first friend to give a presidential candidate heartburn. And based on recent history, another one will be along before John McCain or Barack Obama know it. "You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession," Gramm, a...
Child Development Expert Denise Daniels Says Honest and Open Family Meetings Are Keys to Helping Children Survive Parent's Job Loss MINNEAPOLIS -- Noted child development and parenting authority Denise Daniels says more attention must be paid to helping children cope with the challenges families face when a parent...
Jobless workers in Oklahoma who have exhausted their state unemployment benefits can now apply for an extra 13 weeks of emergency unemployment compensation, according to the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. The unemployment benefit extension will continue through March. To be eligible for emergency unemployment compensation, an individual...
PROVO -- Swimming in a sea of red, white and blue shirts, tents, coolers and cookies, Utahns celebrated the Fourth of July in Provo at the ever popular Grand Parade. One of the crowning events of America's Freedom Festival at Provo, the Grand Parade attracts thousands each...
PARIS AFP — Industrialised countries should brace for a rise in unemployment this year and next, as financial market turmoil puts the brakes on growth and job creation, the OECD warned in a report on Wednesday. Unemployment fell in 2007 across all OECD states except Portugal, Ireland and...
BUDAPEST AFP — The Hungarian jobless rate stood at 7.7 percent in the period from March to May, unchanged from the preceding period of February to April, the central statistics bureau KSH said on Monday. On a 12-month basis, however, unemployment in Hungary was higher in the March-May...
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- As the US economy comes to grip with an economic downturn felt in nearly every household, the effects on teenagers are often overlooked. As the nation's jobless numbers continue to rise we tend to forget the teenager who counted on...
Caption: JOB SEARCH: Cedric Guidroz sorts through job listings at the Los Angeles Mission during the city's 7th annual Employment and Training Collaborative of Hope Central Career Fair. The U.S. Labor Department reported the nation's unemployment rate jumped to 5.5 percent in May from 5.0 percent in April. It was...
Sunday Rally Kicks off Cross-Country Ride to Raise Funds for Homeless, Jobless and Hungry BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Mark Merical touches lives every day in his role as a pastor of Bakersfield's Calvary Bible Church and now he is embarking on the ride of his life, an eight-day, 48-state...
With 8.5 million people looking for work inrough economic times, how do you successfully land a job today? A new bookcalled "Paycheck 911" helps answer that question. The book, written by job search experts and former technology recruitersJoe Turner and Sue Swenson, offers updated advice on how job seekers caneffectively...
Jobless parents are to be offered 200 handouts in return for improving the health and education of their children. Following criticism of the Government's failure to hit targets to tackle child poverty, Gordon Brown will today promise action to prevent a "lost generation" of youngsters growing up...
A decade of labor reform is finally paying off, but now the politicians want to turn back the clock. FLASHBACK TO WESTERN EUROPE, CIRCA 1994. IT’S THE ERA OF “EUROSCLEROSIS”—a chronic malaise of anemic growth, high unemployment and a political class in deep denial about the continent’s problems....
The economy, hobbled by higher fuel and food prices, tighter credit and a depressed housing market, is limping along at a snail's pace, a private business group said Thursday. Separately, the number of newly laid-off workers filing for unemployment benefits remained at worrisomely high levels, even as...
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