Source: www.ajc.com --- 3 hours ago Cobb County schools will cut jobs and slash educational programs as the district faces a $100 million deficit in what officials are calling the worst budget year in recent history. ...
Source: www.calculatedriskblog.com --- 14 hours ago The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims : In the week ending March 6, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 462,000, a decrease of 6,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 468,000. The 4-week moving average was 475,500, an increase of 5,000 from the previous week's revised average of 470,500. ... The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending Feb. 27 was 4,558,000, an increase of 37,000 from the preceding week's revised level of 4,521,000. Click on graph for larger image in new window. This graph shows the 4-week moving average of weekly claims since 1971. The four-week average of weekly unemployment claims increased this week by 5,000 to 470,500. The dashed line on the graph is the current 4-week average. The current level of 462,000 (and 4-week average of 470,500) is still very high, and suggests continuing Joblosses at the beginning of March. ...
Source: www.triplepundit.com --- 17 hours ago A report from California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office concludes that implementation of Assembly Bill 32, or AB32, would result in near-term Joblosses. But Governor Schwarzenegger isn’t buying it. AB32, or the Global Warming Solutions Act, was passed in 2006 and calls for reducing California’s emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by 2020. But an opposition [...] ...
Source: www.baltimoresun.com --- 19 hours ago Employers cut 2,500 jobs as unemployment rises to 7.5% in state Many states added jobs in January, but Maryland - a latecomer to the dour recession party that has undergone a shorter period of Job loss - wasn't among them. ...
Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 20 hours ago Welsh Secretary Peter Hain will visit Toyota's Flintshire factory, a day after 150 Joblosses were announced. ...
Source: www.wctrib.com --- 22 hours ago Changes to Minnesota's mental health services will mean eliminating 200 full-time jobs, closing several community mental health hospitals and revamping the psychiatric hospital in Willmar. ...
Source: www.todaysthv.com --- 1 day ago A report from Associated General Contractors of America shows the number of construction industry jobs fell from January 2009 to January 2010 in every state and the District of Columbia. ...
Source: www.swp.ie --- 1 day ago Photo and video by Paula Geraghty Bank workers protest at Dáil over threat of 750 Joblosses UNITE workers from across the financial sector staged a protest at Dáil Éireann at lunchtime today as anger mounts over the lack of action and apparent interest from government at the plight of Bank of Scotland / Halifax workers who have been told that 750 jobs are to go. This is the first time a retail bank has closed in Ireland and the first time that compulsory redundancy notice has been served on Irish workers in the financial sector. The protest, which took place from 1pm, will culminate in delivery of a letter to an Taoiseach Brian Cowen, demanding a response to the workers alternative proposal for the government creation of a third banking force. This proposal was sent to Cowen and Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan on February 8th but no response has yet been received. Ten years ago a Fianna Fáil government sold the ICC Bank to Bank of Scotland with a view to increasing competition in the business banking sector, said Bernard Daly, Secretary of the UNITE Committee at Bank of Scotland (Ireland). Now the same political establishment is sitting on its hands and refusing to even acknowledge that 750 Irish jobs are worth fighting for or that small Irish business needs competition in the business banking sector in order to survive. The government is willing to talk at length about its own security despite the defection of ministers, said U ...
Source: www.smdailyjournal.com --- 1 day ago SACRAMENTO — The state’s landmark global warming law likely will lead to modest jobs losses in the near future, according to a nonpartisan review that bolsters a growing Republican movem... ...
Source: www.crainsnewyork.com --- 1 day ago Daniel Massey - The city's unemployment rate dipped to 10.4% in January from a revised 10.5% in December, while the state Department of Labor on Thursday released its annual revisions of employment to show that 16,600 more jobs were lost here last year than previously thought. Despite the slight drop in unemployment, the city's jobless rate remains well above the year-earlier level of 7.5%. The state's unemployment rate was 8.8%, down slightly from December. The nation's jobless rate is at 9.7%. “A lot of the strength showing in the national economy has been in areas like manufacturing that we're not heavy in here in New York City,” said James Brown, principal economist at the state labor department. Jobs data are revised at the end of each year as more comprehensive information becomes available from employers' unemployment insurance tax records. The 16,600-Job revision in the city brought total losses in 2009 to 147,000, Mr. Brown said. Since the employment peak in August 2008, the city has lost 160,300 jobs, according to analysis by real estate services firm Eastern Consolidated. The most dramatic revision occurred in professional and business services, which saw 2009 losses jump to 32,800, or 8,300 more than originally recorded. Also Thursday, Independent Budget Office Director Ronnie Lowenstein presented a revised forecast on the local economy to the City Council Finance Committee. She expressed surprise at the city's relative ...
Source: newsbusters.org --- 1 day ago A report released Monday says that California's new global warming law will end up causing Joblosses. The announcement was in stark contrast to continual claims by the Left and their media minions that proposed cap and trade legislation at the federal level will result in an explosion in green jobs. As reported by the Los Angeles Times Wednesday, the nation's most populated state, which is the first to impose laws concerning carbon dioxide emissions, might see a net reduction in employment as a result: The state's nonpartisan legislative analyst's office examined 2008 economic modeling by the California Air Resources Board and concluded that it "may overstate the number of jobs" attributable to future implementation of the 2006 climate law. While acknowledging the uncertainty of such projections, the report said, "On balance, however, we believe that the aggregate net jobs impact in the near term is likely to be negative, even after recognizing that many of the . . . programs phase in over time." The report comes at a politically charged moment, when polls show employment to be Americans' top concern. Signature gathering began last week on a November ballot initiative that would delay the law, known as AB 32, until unemployment drops to 5.5% for at least a year. California joblessness is over 12% today. With U.S. unemployment near ten percent, and the economy consistently viewed as the nation's top priority in poll after poll, one ...
Source: www.contracostatimes.com --- 1 day ago The state's landmark global warming law likely will lead to modest jobs losses in the near future, according to a nonpartisan review that bolsters a growing Republican movement to shelve climate regulations until the economy recovers. ...
Source: www.msnbc.msn.com --- 1 day ago SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO -- Seeking to close an anticipated $34 million budget deficit, Capistrano Unified trustees on Tuesday authorized notifying 322 educators they could be out of a Job at the end of the school year. ...
Source: asiaplatetv.com --- 1 day ago Portsmouth administrator Andrew Andronikou will hold a press conference this afternoon to confirm that a number of club staff are losing their jobs with immediate effect. Top of his hitlist is thought to be £100,000-a-month chief executive Peter Storrie, with head of operations Lucius Peart also facing the chop. With Pompey now in their death throes as a Premier League club, it is no wonder gloom fatigue appears to have set in at Fratton Park after their defeat to Birmingham City last night. ...
Source: www.latimes.com --- 1 day ago The state's nonpartisan legislative analyst's office says the losses could occur in the short term. State Sen. David Cogdill uses the report to criticize climate regulation. Debate over the economic effects of California's first-in-the-nation global warming law flared this week, with a report saying short-term Joblosses can be expected. ...