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...Increasingly, it looks that way. The last half-decade has been punishing for job seekers, and industries like media, airlines and autos won?t exactly brim with openings for many years to come. But things are looking up in other areas. Jobless claims this week hit their lowest level in six years. The unemployment rate has nudged below 5%-a robust reading-and the pace of corporate job cuts has been shrinking for six months...
...only those students with evidence that he or she has secured employment or a promise of employment from the school (on-campus job) or an Employment Authorization Document from Department of Homeland Security (off-campus work) are entitled to apply for a SSN. Therefore, a non-U.S. resident, jobless student like me has no means of getting a SSN. Yet those unattainable and elusive nine digits seem to haunt me wherever I go.SSN’s are not absolutely necessary. However, the alternative to the SSN is tedious and burdensome—foreign students without SSN?...
JOBS. Some folks are strapped after years of a jobless recovery. But this year nearly 2 million jobs have been created in the U.S., and wages and salaries are on the rise. The momentum was reinforced last Friday, when the Labor Department reported 215,000 new jobs in November. "There is a huge disconnect between the headlines and reality," says economist Ed Yardeni at Oak Associates, an investment firm. "It's a prosperous world." But in the consumer's mind, nothing trumps job security. Reuben Kuruvila, 26, of Atlanta, plans to spring a fur coat on his wife. "I really...
...Indigenous Australians, particularly those living in remote areas, are a long way behind their countrymen on all indicators of wellbeing. In an age of material wealth and job growth, with the nation's unemployment rate at 5%, the indigenous jobless rate is 20%. The broader economic game continues to move against Aboriginal people. A recent Australian National University study suggests that if work-for-the-dole participants are categorized as jobless, Aboriginal unemployment could be as high as 50% by 2011. After decades of ineffectual programs, Prime Minister John Howard's government has shifted gears on Aboriginal policy. Treating totems...
...Lewis, who has studied immigration and politics in France, said that the problem behind the riots is “primarily a social one.” “Unemployment is a huge part of the problem.” Lewis said. “The jobless rate among young adults in some of the suburbs ranges anywhere from 25 to 50 percent.” Harvard’s Office of International Programs referred a reporter’s phone call to John “Jay” Ellison, assistant dean of Harvard College...