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Architecture Students Having Worst Time Finding Jobs, Arts and Humanities Not Much Better [Study]

Architecture Students Having Worst Time Finding Jobs, Arts and Humanities Not Much Better [Study]

While a degree in architecture use to be one of the most sought after options for students thanks to the ability to make things and watch them grow into thriving businesses, homes and other buildings that dream ... continue
Citigroup To Cut 4,500 Jobs In Response To Slumping Revenue

Citigroup To Cut 4,500 Jobs In Response To Slumping Revenue

Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit has announced plans to fire 4,500 employees in the coming quarters. To accomplish his goal Pandit will take a charge of nearly $400 million which will be used to pay severance ... continue
Worst Job Hunting Cities In American Revealed

Worst Job Hunting Cities In American Revealed

While taking in the sun and surf of both Miami and Los Angeles might make living in those areas worth the overcrowding and high cost of living for many residents it can also be hard to etch ... continue
Recycling Could Create 1.5 Million Jobs [Study]

Recycling Could Create 1.5 Million Jobs [Study]

1.5 million jobs could be created if the US government increases the recycling rate from 33% to 75% by the year 2030. According to the Tellus Institute because waste diversion is more labor intensive than waste disposal the ... continue
Unemployment Benefits: Fewer Claims, Improving Economy?

Unemployment Benefits: Fewer Claims, Improving Economy?

Like the first few crocuses poking their little crocus-heads out of the ground after winter, it seems that there may be a few signs of a demonstrably improving economy in the United States. (Well, that analogy only ... continue
Apple Posts A Celebration of Steve’s Life Online

Apple Posts A Celebration of Steve’s Life Online

Apple has posted a link on its website to a video of the company's memorial services for its employees to celebrate the life of its founder Steve Jobs. The event, held last Wednesday in an outdoor amphitheater at ... continue
10,000 Wall Street Employees To Lose Jobs In 2012

10,000 Wall Street Employees To Lose Jobs In 2012

Occupy Wall Street protesters have a little reason to celebrate today as a new report from the New York state comptroller warns that 10,000 securities industry jobs will be shed on Wall Street before the end of ... continue
Respiratory Arrest Caused Steve Jobs’ Death

Respiratory Arrest Caused Steve Jobs’ Death

Steve Jobs' death certificate and made public by Apple Inc. revealed that he died of respiratory arrest caused by a pancreatic tumor. The Apple Inc. co-founder who died at 56 last October 5 in his house in Palo ... continue
US Census Study: 1 In 6 Americans Lived In Poverty During 2010

US Census Study: 1 In 6 Americans Lived In Poverty During 2010

Here's a number that the current administration would like to stay hidden, a recent study of the US Census has found that 46.2 million American's lived below the poverty line in 2010, a number equal to 15.1% ... continue
9.2% Unemployment As Job Hiring Nears A Standstill

9.2% Unemployment As Job Hiring Nears A Standstill

The June jobs report has just been released and the numbers are not what we'd expect to see 2 years after experts said the recession ended. Employers added the fewest numbers of jobs in June than they ... continue
ACLU objects to Maryland DOC request for employee Facebook logins

ACLU objects to Maryland DOC request for employee Facebook logins

How would you like it if your boss listened in on your private, off-hours phone conversations or peeked into your bedroom as you engaged in whatever it is you do in there, I ain't judging? Is the ... continue
Law enforcement recruits asked to hand over Facebook passwords, text messages

Law enforcement recruits asked to hand over Facebook passwords, text messages

If you're sworn to uphold the law or hope to be, should you have to bend over and allow hiring directors to sift through your personal communications and base personnel decisions on that content? If a recent piece ... continue
6 hilarious examples of how hard your work isn’t

6 hilarious examples of how hard your work isn’t

And you think you work hard eh. Well let me tell you that you daily grind is nothing compared to what some people have to do to bring you those daily things of enjoyment. Oh alright so ... continue
Your design monkey has quit unexpectedly

Your design monkey has quit unexpectedly

The above pic has been making the rounds, and has been strangely divisive in this worker unfriendly economy. Originally spotted on Reddit, the screengrab was posted by a co-worker of the guy who supposedly wrote it with these ... continue
Not even the Amish are immune to hardship

Not even the Amish are immune to hardship

When we think of the goods times and going on spending sprees buying things we might not really need the last thing we would think of is the Amish doing the same thing. Well ... continue
Montana city treading some dangerous ground

Montana city treading some dangerous ground

I would bet that we’ve all heard more times than we care to count the old warning about being careful about what you post on the Internet because it could come back to haunt ... continue
Looking for a job? Maybe it’s time to get creative

Looking for a job? Maybe it’s time to get creative

Jobs (no not the Steve one) are hard to find during the current recession. As more applications and resumes get either tossed into the garbage bin or disappear into the growing pile on the ... continue