The city of Springfield, Illinois has, like every other city in the nation, faced its share of budgetary problems that it has to navigate in order to say in the black and be able to meet all of their obligations. Though for this city at least, it looks like there may be a light at [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 24, 2012
It looks like the economic outlook for 2012 may be better than the last couple of years have been. Some of the good news that was released in the last couple of weeks includes: A lower number of people were seeking unemployment benefits. According to data released by the Labor Department on Thursday, the numbers [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 27, 2011
When we talk about jobs and often times we talk about the job market in the USA and in Europe. Sometimes places in Asia are discussed, but mostly in the manufacturing area. Today we are going to talk about India and their job market. Like every company they have had to deal with some serious [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 27, 2011
When it comes to staying on the payroll it looks like one of the best places to be is still working for the federal government. If, at the first blush, that seems to be a little bit out of sync you have to remember that we are talking about the feds only, not the state [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 10, 2011
The Salinas City Council has approved its budget for 2011-2012, and reports that the city’s nine unions are making helpful concessions. The plan currently is to let go 57 workers, 22 of them police, but lay-offs may still be avoided. The city will do a final review of the plan in mid-July. Salinas has cut [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 13, 2011
According to the Denver Post, Quiznos will lay off 140 employees at its Denver headquarters as well as across the country. Included in the layoffs are midlevel managers around the country as well as full-time employees at its central office. The company has a new management team that is currently attempting to cut corporate costs [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 4, 2010
Bloomberg: It’s a fact that it’s hard to find work. And it’s taking longer than ever to find what work there is. 2007’s pre-recession average duration for unemployment seems like an extended vacation (16.5 weeks) when compared to the figures released today in a Labor Department report (34.4 weeks). The amount of time Americans are [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 7, 2010
The New York MTA has announced an additional approximately 1,000 positions that are being eliminated. Aaron Donovan, spokesman for MTA, said that the exact number is unknown. On the list to be cut are 116 cleaning jobs. Previously the subway cars were cleaned at the end of their run, and will now be cleaned at [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 13, 2010
More than 100 School District teachers, parents, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and others joined in a protest Monday night over the job cuts put forth in Rochester, New York’s proposed $694.5 million budget. “Why would you cut 165 jobs from support services and put 88 people out of work?” asked sentry Joe DiPaolo of School [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake released a budget proposal Wednesday that stands to cut more than 600 city employees, including 120 police officers and 90 fire fighters. The Maryland city is looking at a budget deficit of $121 million, and this initial proposal would balance the offset. Fortunately, it is not expected to be adopted in [...]
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