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No Experience or Degree? You’re Hired
It's a job-seekers' market, apparently. With unemployment low , the Wall Street Journal reports that employers in a wide range of fields around the US are loosening up on job requirements in order to fill positions. For those without a college degree or experience in a particular field, it means the... Go to Source Author: Newser Editors
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Unemployment Rate Hasn’t Been This Low Since April 2000
May ushered in an 18-year low as far as the unemployment rate goes, with 223,000 jobs added and the jobless rate sinking to 3.8%. That's better than expected: Economists had anticipated a gain of 190,000 jobs and for the unemployment rate to hold at 3.9%. May's... Go to Source Author: Newser Editors
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This Town Will Pay You to Live 45 Minutes From Cincinnati
America's 4.1% unemployment rate doesn't exactly bring smiles to the leaders of America's small towns. "Eventually you run out of people to do the work," is how one economist puts it to the Wall Street Journal . And we're nearing that eventuality, following an exodus of the key class of... Go to Source Author: Kate Seamons
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Finland Ditches Basic Income; US Is Up Next
It looks like universal basic income won't get the green light in Finland. A little more than a year into a two-year trial, the Finnish government says it won't expand an experiment that sees 2,000 unemployed Finns paid $685 per month in basic income , rather than financial benefits, with... Go to Source Author: Arden Dier
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Unemployment Rate Doesn’t Budge for 6th Month in Row
Economists had projected the unemployment rate to drop to 4.0% for the first time since 2000, but that milestone wasn't to be in March: The jobless rate held steady at 4.1% for the sixth consecutive month, the Wall Street Journal reports. Some 103,000 jobs were added, well... Go to Source Author:
