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Source: www.zdnet.com
Dice.com, the online IT job search site, just issued a report on the number of tech jobs available on the site for a given day and the number of computer science and computer information graduates recently entering the work force. In its one-day snapshot of available jobs, Dice found a 60% jump from the low ebb of the recession about two years ago.
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Source: www.alternet.org
“Regulations kill jobs.” Congressional Republicans are using
this whopper to justify their attempts to defund regulatory agencies.
Regulations whose costs to business exceed their benefits to the public
are unwarranted, of course, but reasonable regulation is necessary to
avoid everything from nuclear meltdowns to oil spills to mine disasters
to food contamination – all of which we’ve sadly witnessed.
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Source: www.informationweek.com
Bucking conventional wisdom -- "what everyone knows is wrong" -- Krugman hypothesizes that since technology tends to make it easier to automate routine information-driven jobs, it follows that far from giving an educated person an edge in finding jobs, technology in fact threatens the livelihood of the knowledge worker.
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Source: www.bigthink.com
In a letter to the New York Times, Bloomberg—himself a billionaire captain of the newspaper industry—concedes that public sector unions have helped drive the cost of providing public services up. But he argues that unions have the same long-term stake in the success of their enterprises as managers do.
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Source: www.bigthink.com
More than two years after the financial crisis, unemployment remains at 9.0%. Even as corporate profits rebound, the economy is still barely adding enough jobs to keep up with the number of new people entering the workforce. One of the main reasons the nominal unemployment rate has dropped at all is that some people who were looking for work for a long time have given up
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