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The Top 10 Things You May Not Know About the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Wednesday, July 21 2010 - white-house-reform-wall-street - 1 comments

The White House Blog (Source: Whitehouse.gov) Posted by Jen Psaki on July 21, 2010 at 06:00 AM EDT Here are 10 aspects of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act you may not know about -- the online attention-deficit version. Stronger protections for consumers against unfair credit card practices like rate hikes for existing credit card balances. Mortgage brokers will be prohibited from making higher commissions by selling mortgages they know consumers can’t afford. Free annual credit scores so people can stay on top of their finances. No more taxpayer-funded bailouts. If a company...

Metros where employment is growing (via Kate Lorenz)

Tuesday, December 29 2009 - metro, employment, texas, recession, economy, 2009 - 1 comments

Kate Lorenz on Dec 16, 2009 - http://bit.ly/8ihNaa I’m probably as sick of writing about job loss as you are reading about it. Today I have some good news to report. Yesterday, the Brookings Institute released the Q3 edition of its MetroMonitor, a “quarterly, interactive barometer of the health of America’s 100 largest metropolitan economies.” The MetroMonitor analyzes trends in U.S. metro employment, unemployment, economic performance, housing prices and real estate-owned properties to determine the rate of the country’s recession and recovery. So what did they find...

The Supreme Court says worker’s texts aren’t private

Friday, June 18 2010 - 1 comments

( The Work Buzz ) Workplaces are not new. They’ve been around forever, figuratively speaking. Yet, thanks to evolving technology, employees and bosses continue to find new controversies to settle. Twitter, e-mails, blogs, etc. They’ve all caused headaches and lawsuits. The latest kerfuffle has gone all the way to the Supreme Court, and it could change the way some workers think about workplace privacy. In City of Ontario v. Quon , Jeff Quon, a police sergeant in Ontario, Calif., had the text messages on his company-provided cell phone audited by the city and claimed he had a right to...

CareerBuilder On Verge Of Offering Job Search On iPhones

Friday, March 13 2009 - 1 comments

CareerBuilder ( profile ; site ) has just bumped up its coolness factor and raised the stakes in the competition to be the No. 1 job board in the U.S. Soon, jo bseekers with an Apple iPhone (the epitome of techno-cool) can search for a job on their phone as easily as on their MacBook. And actually, it might even be easier, since CareerBuilder uses the iPhone's geolocation to identify your city. All you do is enter the relevant keywords and up pops a list of jobs. Scroll the list, jump back and forth, narrow the list with more keywords or change location, should you decide Las Vegas would be more...

USA JOBS

Friday, March 13 2009 - 2 comments

Here is a current article http://www.theworkbuzz.com/map-to-the-most-jobs?employment-trends/1723 The latest BLS numbers show that the U.S. lost 651,000 jobs in February, growing the unemployment rate to its highest level in 25 years to 8.1% . For those who are unemployed or fearful of a layoff are left wondering, “Are there any jobs out there?” CareerBuilder released its Map to the Most Jobs today. This map showcases where the most jobs are in the U.S. in relation to population, based on the number of CareerBuilder job listings for every 1,000 residents. Dark blue areas currently carry...

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Friday, March 13 2009 - 0 comments

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