New Enterprise Allowance scheme 'helps 1,000s of new firms'

Hundreds of unemployed people are starting up small businesses every week with the help of a government scheme for entrepreneurial jobseekers, according to ministers. The scheme offers unemployed people an...

Unemployed? Get a federal loan to pay your mortgage

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.

Take my Job. Please!

Using comedy to make a serious point, Stephen Colbert is publicizing a challenge made by American farm workers who are tired of being villanized in the press. "SAN FRANCISCO – In a tongue-in-cheek call for...

Tom Delay: People Unemployed Because They Want to Be

Former Republican House Majority Leader Tom Delay of Texas, appearing on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, March 7, 2010, told Candy Crowley that Senator Jim Bunning (R-Ky) was brave to launch his one man...

2.8million Brits under-employed

New figures reveal that not only are 2.6million British workers unemployed but that a further 2.8million are underemployed. It's not that Britain is a nation of slackers in fact it's estimated that one-in-ten...

The unemployed should besiege the administration

Ferguson Pt.4: Profits go up as jobs are cut; people will not accept 20% unemployment

Tokyo's greatest shame.

By, Uwe Paschen.  Tokyo is one of the greatest cities on this planet with some of the best museums, parks and attraction one can imagine, it also has one of the World best universities; an impressive...

Unemployment rates go up : unemployed celebrate labor day

Columnist Clifford Bryan talks about unemployment rates and the unemployed on Labor Day . "The Barack Obama administration stimulus package saved us from a depression and stopped a recession . The one question people are asking , where are the jobs? With unemployment rates at...

$787 Billion Not Enough.Obama Advisor Urges Another Stimulus Plan

This is a bad idea, even as a possibility.The deficit is alreadytoo much and will take decades to repay. We do not need more debt. "The Obama administration appears to be sending mixed signals on whether a second...

Immigration cutbacks essential

Barry Artiste Op/Ed National Post's Diane Francis pretty much says what many are thinking, but few will admit to it publicly, as she says, does it make sense for a company to hire more people in the front door,...

US Unemployment Rate At 25-Year High

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...

Economy’s turnaround (part 3)

In the two previous issues about this subject the economy is judged from the Macro and the Business viewpoint. Macro deals with the overall approach as bank institutions, while Business with the industrial side of...

Child Slave Labor in China

   Just when we think we've heard the worst out of China, another atrocity rears its ugly head.  This time it's the push for more child labor. I know that some of you have read my articles on China...

Canada: Job Losses Worst on Record

OTTAWA - The recession hit home last month, as a massive 129,000 workers joined the unemployed, more than half of those in Ontario.  The province's unemplyment rate rose to 8%, up from 7.2% in December....

Zimbabwe Unemployment Soars to 94%, Seven Million in Need of Food

More bad news for Robert Mugabe's government." Zimbabwe's unemployment rate has spiked to 94 percent, meaning that fewer than half a million people in the country are formally employed, the UN's humanitarian arm said...

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