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Apr 22 2024
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Illinois: We like our sports teams more than our jobs, study shows
Betway.com ranks Illinois as the sixth state most likely to call out sick for sports CHICAGO—With a plethora of sports teams available to Chicagoans, it’s feasible that your early morning cough was a bit exaggerated, all in the name of cheering on your beloved [insert sports team here]. We’re not here to judge. Chicago is a sports city, after all. But new data from Betway.com ranks Illinois as
WGNApr 16 2024
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Amazon HQ2 was supposed to add jobs last year. It shed them instead.
Amazon has fallen so far behind schedule in creating new jobs at its Northern Virginia headquarters that its workforce at those offices shrank last year, the company confirmed, underscoring how a project that it had initially pitched as an economic jolt is instead hitting a slowdown. Following a much-hyped sweepstakes across North America several years ago, the tech giant made a deal with
Washington PostApr 08 2024
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Biden, Trump and Dr. Bob: the Human Realities of Aging on the Job
He had become the local expert on what he called the “unwanted side effects of old age,” so Dr. Bob Ross, 75, rubbed arthritis cream onto his hands and walked into an exam room to see his seventh elderly patient of the day. He had been a doctor in the remote town of Ortonville, Minn., for nearly five decades, caring for most of its 2,000 residents as he aged alongside them. He delivered their
New York Times (News)Apr 07 2024
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Britain’s Jobs Market Is Getting Even Tougher for New Graduates
Jobs for Britain’s university graduates are drying up at double the pace of the rest of the labor market, spurring concerns that businesses aren’t investing enough in their future workforces.
The number of vacancies for graduates fell 30.2% from a year ago in February, according to data from the jobs search engine Adzuna provided to Bloomberg. That compares with a 15.1% drop across the
BloombergApr 19 2024
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Get Hired! Mega-job fair in Sunrise, 13,000 positions looking to be filled
SUNRISE - More than 50 companies will be looking to fill thousands of positions at a mega-job fair in Sunrise next week. The companies are hiring for positions in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. The event will take place on Thursday, April 25th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise. The arena was formerly called the FLA Live Arena, before that it was the
CBS News (Online)Apr 19 2024
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Bay Area bounces back with job gains in March, led by South Bay hiring
San Jose Mercury NewsApr 11 2024
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Top Amazon exec says it's a 'myth' robots steal jobs
A robot prepares to pick up a tote containing product at the Amazon Robotics fulfillment center on April 12, 2019 in Orlando, Florida. A top Amazon executive told CNBC Thursday that it's a "myth" that robots and other technologies take jobs away from people. Stefano La Rovere, director of global robotics, mechatronics, and sustainable packaging at Amazon, said that, rather than replacing jobs
CNBCApr 07 2024
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J.D. Vance Uses Immigration to Bash Biden’s Job Report
The March jobs report may have exceeded economists’ expectations, but because some jobs went to migrants, it inevitably became Fox News fodder for Maria Bartiromo and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH). Vance appeared on Sunday Morning Futures on Sunday, where he railed at the idea that “foreign-born” workers are taking “a lot of that net job growth” from Americans. He then said, in the same breath, it
Daily BeastApr 15 2024
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DC teachers brace for hundreds of job cuts after Bowser budget proposal
Teachers and staff in Washington, D.C.’s public schools fear there may be 200 positions cut due to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s new budget proposal. While Bowser included in her city’s budget proposal a 12% increase to District of Columbia Public Schools’s funding formula, giving schools an additional $181 million, schools are still likely to fall short of meeting their budgetary needs. The shortfall
Washington ExaminerApr 11 2024
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$115 million sawmill planned for Coosa County, creating 130 jobs
Demopolis-based Two Rivers Lumber Co. will build a $115 million sawmill in Coosa County, creating 130 jobs. Peak North America is leading construction of the facility in Kellyton, with a start set for June. The mill is set to open in August 2025. It will specialize in the production of Southern Yellow Pine dimensional lumber. “This growth project will have a significant impact on Coosa County
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