In the US, unemployment counselors keep a close hand on unemployed to make certain they are looking for work. Compulsory public service is not a part of the equation here, however, as it appears to be the case in...
Unemployed and can't pay your mortgage? You can soon apply for a no-interest government loan for up to $50,000 to pay your mortgage and cover your arrears for up to two years. The loan will be forgiven if the homeowner stays in the house for five years.
created by wesleybrivin | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 238 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
During the great credit expansion of 1945-2007, businesses could anticipate, generally, rising earnings. People were buying more and more things on credit. In a national economy, businesses pay wages and then the...
" US employers cut 216,000 jobs in August, pushing the unemployment rate up to 9.7%, a 26-year high, official figures show. The unemployment rate rose after dipping to 9.4% in July but the Labor Department said the job loss figure was the smallest in a year. Since the...
created by Babel-Fish | 2 years ago 75 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
1 percent unemploymentwould be a disaster.It is still possible it will notget that bad. " The current 9.5% unemployment rate is causing great economic pain, and life with a 14% jobless rate would be much, much...
My husband has not had health-care insurance since September. It's like playing the lottery. I will have to start paying COBRA or go without soon. With so many without health-care coverage, the price for health-care will increase for all."By Bonna Johnson • THE TENNESSEAN...
"Canada's unemployment rate rose to an 11-year high of 8.4 per cent in May as the country lost 41,800 jobs, Statistics Canada said Friday. The jobless rate was up from eight per cent in April, when the country...
created by sivakaran | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1213 views | 39 recommendations | 3 comments
Have become a nation of debtor kings sitting proudly upon our throne of affectations? I would be inclined to answer in the affirmative and the evidence tends to support the assertion. We have become little more than the sum total of our possessions; blithely mortgaging our...
opinion by robehren | 2 years ago 182 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
This is one of the few subjects for which I cannot provide any photographs (sorry!). I must say that the story in question appears to be more of a recruitment advertisment for the sex industry than a genuine comment on the current economic crisis. "From jobless to topless...
This does not sound very good for a "healthy" life style. " Life would be meaningless and not worth living without the internet, nearly one in seven Hong Kong youngsters said in a survey released Friday. ...
As follow-up on my yesterdays article ‘The End of an Empire’, here my analysis whether China is a likely candidate as successor. America, as superpower, has passed its peak. Although in public China’s leaders avoid triumphalism, there is a sense in Beijing that the...
opinion by PIM of SPAIN | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 2397 views | 4 recommendations | 3 comments
The US jobless rate reached 8.1% in February - a bigger jump than expected. According to the US Labor Department, the number of people out of work rose by 651,000 last month. The unemployment rate is the highest...
created by Rachel Nixon | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 632 views | 23 recommendations | 6 comments
The number of unemployed in Asia is likely to increase by about 7.2 million from 2008 to this year. This figure, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), is at a rate of 5.1 per cent, with women and youth hard-hit by rising unemployment. The report said...
FORT MYERS, Florida - They were just two more jobless people in an economy full of them. Sixty-one year old Henrietta Hughes and her son were living out of their pickup truck, but they now have a glimmer of...
created by Mary Richard | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 182 views | 14 recommendations | 2 comments
World is facing the fire on every front, from climate to forest, to Job market.Latest release on job prospect in UK says that, the unemployment figure in UK rose to 1.97 million, and the count is still on.Similar kind of news is coming from all over the world, whether from ,...
created by Amitjha | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 118 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment