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Call for curb on ‘work-permit Britons’ (Times Online)
A proposal to cap the numbers of immigrants settling in Britain after entering on work permits has been called “divisive and wasteful of talent”.
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Unemployment stats hit home among job seekers (Houston Chronicle)
Debbie Gordon has one of those faces that seemingly was meant to smile. For 13 years, she joked and bantered with customers lucky enough to line up at her cash register. Then came the layoff. Now, her pleasant visage, bathed in the employment service computer's phosphorescent glow, betrays the stress of work not found.
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Helping the jobless N.H. unemployed return to work in avg. of 13 weeks (The Citizen of Laconia)
Daryl Carlson/Citizen photo Veterans Employment Councilor Mike Bergeron, left, on Wednesday discusses the current job market with coworker Paul Hatch, an interview counselor at the Employment Security/NHWorks office in Laconia.
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Helping the jobless N.H. unemployed return to work in avg. of 13 weeks (Foster's Daily Democrat)
Mike Ross/Chief photographer Resource Center Assistant, Kathy Owen, right, helps a customer with job hunting Wednesday at the New Hampshire Employment Security Office in Somersworth.
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Toledo feels at home with its rules for worker residency (The Toledo Blade)
Tonya Ayres rents a modest home in the middle of a Monroe County farm field and feels safe enough there to leave her car and home unlocked at night. Green fields expand to the horizon - past a dirt road and trees close to the house. These are all things Ms. Ayres is not willing to give up - even though it meant losing her job as a secretary with the city of Toledo. "I worked for the city for ...
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Gloomy employment news underscores economic struggles (Miami Herald)
The combination of falling home equity, the rising cost of food, health care and housing, tighter credit and eight straight months of job losses - 84,000 in August alone - has put the squeeze on middle-class families struggling to stay afloat in a slumping economy.
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Depression-era, subsidized paintings draw interest (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
MERIDEN, Conn. - During the Great Depression, Meriden artist John Backstrom created 12 landscape paintings a month as part of a federal employment project. He never knew what happened to most of the canvases.
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57 city employees permitted to take vehicles home (Lake City Reporter)
Several Lake City Growth Management Department vehicles sit Friday afternoon in a parking lot ready to serve the needs of the employees who help residents and visitors to the city.
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Wolcott officer gets $300,000 in sex discrimination settlement (Republican-American)
WOLCOTT — The police department's only female officer will receive $300,000 to settle her employment discrimination lawsuit against the town.
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Retirement age no barrier to work (Poughkeepsie Journal)
CHICAGO - Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and working into their late 60s and beyond.
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