Word: joblessness
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...familiar scene these days: employees taking newly laid-off co-workers out for a consolation drink. But which side deserves sympathy more, the jobless or the still employed? On March 6, researchers at a conference at the University of Cambridge heard data suggesting it's the latter: compared with people who are straight-up laid off, those who keep their job but are under a constant threat of losing it suffer a greater decline in mental well-being...
...ladder faculty is central for the health and vitality of this university and universities throughout the country,” he added. English Professor Louis Menand said that he is worried the program may not be a service to Fellows in the long term, since it may leave postdocs jobless after their one-year stint. “It’s really a way to get inexpensive teaching,” he said. “We need to make sure it’s good for them and we’re not just using them...
Using the U.S. government's count, about 2.4 million Americans lost their jobs last year. That does not include people who had been jobless for an extended period and were no longer looking for jobs. In January, another 598,000 people were put onto the streets by their employers, moving the unemployment rate...
...undercounted because of the large numbers of illegal aliens who have come into the state, mostly from Mexico. The competition for jobs between citizens and those who have recently crossed the border in search of work is almost certainly increasing, which is likely to cause alarming confrontations among the jobless...
...feuds may be only one factor in Moscow's rash of murders. The killing of the Tajik worker, for example, has many fearing the start of a wave of racially motivated killings. Moscow chief prosecutor Syomin has said that the financial crisis may also be a contributing factor, with jobless locals taking out their frustrations on migrants. But Galina Kozhevnikova, deputy director of the Sova Center, which monitors racially motivated crimes, argues that the rise in unemployment has nothing to do with the death of 14 Central Asian migrant workers in Russia in January. "The number of deaths is lower...