oth - unemployment/under-employment

For Class of '08, A Scramble For Jobs

Seeded on Tue Apr 8, 2008 8:14 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

Seeded by John Whittet (Clipped by oth)

As the credit crunch roils financial markets and the U.S. economy sputters, new college graduates are plunging into the rockiest job market in recent years.

economy, college, jobs, finance, us-news, accounting, wsj, employers, job-market

Wall Street Firms Cut 34,000 Jobs, Most Since 2001 Dot-Com Bust

Seeded on Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:57 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)

Seeded by greenpagan (Clipped by oth)

Wall Street banks hit by mortgage losses and writedowns have cut more than 34,000 jobs in the past nine months, the most since the dot-com boom fizzled in 2001.

business, wall-street, banks, federal-reserve, bailout, recession, investment-banks, economic-slowdown, credit-markets, economic-contraction

Unemployed, and Skewing the Picture

Seeded on Wed Mar 5, 2008 2:17 PM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by ShaunV (Clipped by oth)

In 1878, Carroll D. Wright set out to do something that nobody in the United States had apparently ever done before. He tried to count the number of unemployed.

us-news, unemployed, unemployed-and-skewing-the-picture, carroll-d-wright, unemployement-figures

Is a Lean Economy Turning Mean?

Seeded on Sun Mar 2, 2008 7:18 AM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by Dr. Sherman N. Miller (Clipped by oth)

Workers are getting fewer hours, and those without jobs are staying unemployed longer or accepting lower pay.

business, labor, nytimes, united-states-economy, layoffs-and-job-reductions, goldman-sachs-group-incorporated, moodys-corporation, blue-collar-workers

Low unemployment rate hides rise in long-term jobless

Seeded on Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:58 PM EST (McClatchy)

Seeded by Josh of Arc (Clipped by oth)

Bill Clinton's campaign famously defined the 1992 election with the phrase, "It's the economy, stupid." Today, "It's the jobs, stupid."

economy, unemployment, economics, bush-administration, us-news, recession

Is the Party Over In China? Massive Unemployment Looms

Seeded on Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:44 PM EST (World Tribune)

Seeded by space guy (Clipped by oth)

Very interesting article about the slowdown in China's economy due to the ripples of the subprime housing market in the USA. The problems have been made worse by the worst weather in 50 years in China which is causing massive food shortages.

business, china, climate-change, global-economic-growth