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The latest Obama approval rating numbers show that President Obama has an approval rating of 49 percent. His approval ratings have fluctuated up and down over the last year, and it is hard to get a gauge of his popularity in the country. It seems that h...

Copyright (c) 2011 Scott F Paradis With government reported unemployment hovering around nine percent and the real unemployment rate much higher, those with constituencies to please are talking off a script intent to create jobs. Along a commuter route...

The Office for National Statistics has released some interesting figures about the numbers of pension aged workers working on after the age of 65. It seems that by December 2010 870,000 people over the age of 65 were employed in Britain. PAWS, as they a...

The latest employment statistics from the United States Department of Labor have some heartening news: the unemployment rate fell by 0.4% to 9.4% in December 2010, and non-farm payroll employment increased by 103,000. According to the same department, “Em...

Spain finds itself amidst first general strike in the country in eight years. The strike which is going to last 24-hour started today with the Spanish workers disrupting the broadcasts and transport throughout the nation as the demonstrators plan to march...

(This is a bit of a controversial topic so I want to go ahead & from the get-go mention that I don't mean to offend anyone's views in any shape or form.) There's really no question as to whether or not the US is in a financial crisis right now. But the...

The Las Vegas economy continues to one of the hardest hit by the country's economic downturn, as it suffers from an unemployment rate higher than the national average and a slump in its construction and tourism industries, two of the traditional drivers o...

Returning back to the nest… gracefully. The unemployment rate in the US reached a 26 year high in October when it crept past the dreaded 10 percent mark. With over 16 million Americans unable to find jobs, more and more parents are finding their chil...

The truth about 2012 is nobody knows if its true or not. With all the evidence pointing to the exact date of December 21, 2012 its hard to deny that 2012 is true. Of course we cant see the future so nobody can really say exactly what will happen. But ...

Unemployment occurs when a person is available to work and seeking work but currently without work.The prevalence of unemployment is usually measured using the unemployment rate, which is defined as the percentage of those in the labor force who are unemp...