Posts tagged with unemployment

Youth Equally Disaffected In The U.S., So Could U.K. Riots Happen Stateside?

0 comments, 29/08/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in apple, mobile, News, Politics As Usual, program, World News

Americans have watched in astonishment, along with the rest of the world, at the violence that's erupted in England as young, disaffected Britons take to the streets to vent their rage. But could it happen in the United States as it grapples with a 25 per cent youth unemployment rate an... Read more...

Teen Joblessness May Hit Record In Summer 2011

0 comments, 17/05/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Dont Believe The Hype, News, Politics As Usual, program

A record-low one in four U.S. teenagers will land a summer job in the coming months as a result of a still-poor job market and lost federal funding, according to a report issued on Monday. As a consequence, urban studies experts said cities like Chicago -- where summer unemployment among African-... Read more...

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Representative Jesse Jackson Jr Blames The iPad For All of America’s Problems

0 comments, 19/04/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in download, ipad, News, Technology, World News

Jesse Jackson, a United States House of Representatives member from Illinois, has gone and flip-flopped his position regarding the iPad. In March, he stated that the United States Federal Government should provide an iPad to every student because “…[it] will fundamentally alter how we educat... Read more...

IAmNotADictionary Phrase Of The Day: Career Veneers

0 comments, 08/10/2010, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in IAmNotADictionary

Career Veneers - The thin layer of potential for career advancement, increase in pay and future opportunities that an employer paints on your job to convince you that the future holds something more than you are currently experiencing. Ex: I had my first year appraisal at the McDonalds today. Th... Read more...

Real Jobs, Fake Jobs: The Unemployment Myth

0 comments, 21/07/2010, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Politics As Usual, program, World News

In many ways, the unemployment numbers are much worse than they appear. One factor has been the timing of the US census. The bureau hired some 700,000 workers to collect data, people who otherwise were having a very difficult time navigating the choppy labor markets. They went for the jobs becau... Read more...

Lawmakers Say “Fake Urine” Threatens Public Safety

1 comment, 16/06/2010, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Politics As Usual

Things must be slow in the Tennessee legislature if the most pressing item of business on the agenda is passing a law to ban the sale of “fake urine.” This ‘urgent’ bill would make it illegal to sell fake urine for the purpose of falsifying a drug test. According to the bill’s spons... Read more...

33 States Out Of Money To Fund Unemployment Benefits

4 comments, 12/04/2010, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in General, program

With unemployment still at a severe high, a majority of states have drained their jobless benefit funds, forcing them to borrow billions from the federal government to help out-of-work Americans. A total of 33 states and the Virgin Islands have depleted their funds and borrowed more than $38.7 bi... Read more...

Senate Passes $140 Billion Bill Extending Jobless Claims

1 comment, 12/03/2010, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Politics As Usual, program, World News

The Senate on Wednesday approved a wide-ranging bill that would push back the deadline to file for extended unemployment insurance until year-end and extends dozens of expired tax breaks. The bill, passed by a 62-36 vote, is the latest job creation effort to go before lawmakers, though it contain... Read more...

Study: Thousands of Haitan Children Work As Slaves

0 comments, 25/12/2009, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, program, World News

As many as 225,000 children in Haiti live and work as unpaid domestic servants, the first study to closely examine the issue concluded. The existence of these arrangements are not new, but the scope is larger than previously thought, a new study by the Pan American Development Foundation fou... Read more...