Employment News

RallyPoint Aims to Connect Vets, Service Members with Jobs
Fox Business
After serving in the Army in the same region of Iraq in 2008, Yinon Weiss and Aaron Kletzing reconnected a few years later at Harvard Business School, where Weiss was the co-president of the Veteran's Club. “At business school, we were using LinkedIn ...

U.S. News & World Report (blog)
Bernanke's Right: Focus on Jobs
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
In recent congressional testimony, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke clearly explained what's still wrong with the economy, outlined the Fed's thinking on monetary policy and strongly implied that fiscal policy is still off base. His account and ...

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Lost jobs, higher costs: Obamacare hits home
Baltimore Sun
On this Memorial Day weekend, as we remember with deepest gratitude the sacrifice of America's military heroes, we also offer our thoughts and prayers for the victims of the Oklahoma tragedy. I've dedicated a half-dozen columns to the single most ...

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Ford Promises to Keep 1000 Jobs at French Plant
Fox Business
Ford Motor Co. (F) pledged to maintain 1,000 jobs for five years at a factory in southwestern France under an agreement signed Friday on aid and incentives to keep the transmission plant running. The agreement signed by representatives of Ford's ...

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Bloomberg
Vedanta's Konkola Copper Mines Unit in Zambia to Cut 2000 Jobs
Bloomberg
Vedanta Resources Plc (VED)'s Zambian unit plans to cut 24 percent of its workforce after costs rose and the copper price dropped. Konkola Copper Mines Plc will reduce the total number of employees at its operations in Africa's biggest producer of the ...

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Why Chinese college graduates aren't getting jobs
Quartz
Their caps aren't the only things up in the air. Getty Images/Hong Wu. Why Chinese college graduates aren't getting jobs. By Lotus Yuen, The Atlantic — May 24, 2013. The term “hardest job-hunting season in history” has become a buzzword in China ...

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Obama should do more than talk about creating jobs
Baltimore Sun (blog)
I recently read the article, "President talks economy, jobs in Baltimore" (May 18). In one of the last paragraphs, Rep. Andy Harris, a Republican, is quoted as describing President Barack Obama's visit to Baltimore as "another photo op on a campaign ...

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Business 2 Community
Where are the STEM jobs?
Baltimore Sun
Republicans and Democrats appear to agree on at least one thing: that the United States is facing a STEM (science, technology engineering and math) crisis. In his most recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared that he wants to ...
Where Are The Jobs For Millennials?Business 2 Community

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New York Times (blog)
Laurene Powell Jobs and Anonymous Giving in Silicon Valley
New York Times (blog)
Laurene Powell Jobs, center, at a graduation ceremony for Urban League College Track students William Widmer for The New York Times Laurene Powell Jobs, center, at a graduation ceremony for Urban League College Track students in New Orleans.
Steve Jobs's family has been giving money away anonymously for more than 2 ...Apple Insider
How Laurene Powell Jobs Keeps The Jobs Family Philanthropy Under WrapsCult of Mac

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Allentown School Board approves cutting 154 jobs
Allentown Morning Call
Allentown School Board approved a curtailment of programs Thursday that eliminates 132 teachers and 12 administrators, pushing the financially challenged district to more than 400 jobs slashed over the past four years. The district's second massive ...

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Wall Street Journal
Rio Tinto Cuts Utah Copper Jobs
Wall Street Journal
MELBOURNE—Rio Tinto PLC has cut about 100 jobs at its copper operation in Utah and warned further positions will be cut later this month to reduce operating costs after a pit-wall collapse in April. The London-based company's Kennecott Utah Copper ...
Rio Tinto Reduces Jobs At Kennecott Utah CopperRTT News
Rio Tinto (RIO) cuts ~100 jobs at its Kennecott copper operation in Utah and ...Seeking Alpha

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American Metal Market
Rio Tinto Begins Cutting Jobs at Utah Copper Mine After Slide
Fox Business
Rio Tinto PLC (RIO.LN) has cut about 100 jobs at its copper operation in Utah and warned further positions will be cut later this month as it moves to reduce operating costs after a large part of the pit wall collapsed at its Bingham Canyon mine last ...
Rio Tinto Cuts Utah Copper JobsWall Street Journal

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Fed History Shows Punch Bowl Goes as Jobs Rise: Cutting Research
Bloomberg
An improving labor market rather than accelerating inflation made the Federal Reserve decide to end its last three episodes of easy monetary policy. It may be about to happen again, says Barclays Plc strategist Barry Knapp. He looked back to May 1983, ...

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Jobs up in BR, NO, Lafayette
The Advocate
The number of nonfarm jobs in Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Lafayette and the state continued to increase in April, but at a slower pace than in previous months, according to figures released Thursday by the Louisiana Workforce Commission. Louisiana ...

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No degree? Good-paying jobs still exist
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Who says you need a four-year degree to land a decent-paying job? A new report from CareerCast, “Best Jobs Without a College Degree,” says there are good-paying jobs out there for people who never graduated from college. The list of 14 jobs may come ...

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Bring in Foreign Talent to Create US Jobs
Huffington Post (blog)
Canada gets it. They are recruiting the world's brightest people, who our crazy immigration laws repel. Canada has a billboard in Silicon Valley that states “H-1B Problems? Pivot to Canada.” We face a critical shortage of high-skilled jobs in this ...

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10 Unusual Jobs That Pay Surprisingly Well
Forbes
We all know that most doctors, lawyers, and CEOs make good money–but you may be surprised to learn that funeral service managers, hot dog vendors, and ice cream testers can also pull in a pretty penny. To compile our 2013 list of 10 unusual jobs that ...

The Cities Winning The Battle For Information Jobs
Forbes
The information industry has long been a darling of the media — no surprise since the media constitutes a major part of this economic sector, which includes publishing, software, entertainment and data processing. Yet until the last few years, it has ...

Three Stories About Steve Jobs, Einstein, And Ben Franklin Prove That Creative ...
San Francisco Chronicle
There are few commencement speeches that last beyond the day they're given. One is Steve Jobs' 2005 address to Stanford's graduating class, where he famously used three stories to memorably define his life. Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson used the ...

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The Atlantic
Why Chinese College Graduates Aren't Getting Jobs
The Atlantic
Despite a still-thriving economy, university graduates struggle to overcome an employment market increasingly skewed to the well-born and the well-connected. Lotus Yuen May 23 2013, 2:49 PM ET. Tweet. More. Email. Print. jobfair.jpg Job seekers crowd ...

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