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Re "How to Create a Job" [March 29]: The government can help gin up jobs by reducing the 40-hour workweek, which was established in 1940. Since then, technology has increased worker productivity dramatically, resulting in fewer workers producing more. A 36-hour week would require the workforce to be...
I oversee 97 employees, 26 in the U.S. and 71 in India, at a large financial company. My offshore employees are superb, but doing a story on U.S. jobs without looking at outsourcing--a huge challenge to the job market--does a disservice to your readers.
Since the U.S. has lost 8.4 million jobs in the Great Recession, this hopeful guide to life after the ax would seem to have a ready market. The authors offer valuable tips for keeping yourself together (exercise, sleep, a sound diet, socializing and staying active) and plotting your future after...
Unpaid internships have long been a mainstay for students who get academic credit in lieu of a paycheck. But in the Great Recession, with the unemployment rate hovering near 10%, job-search sites like CareerBuilder and Monster.com are reporting increases in the number of postings for internships. And more and...
The perceived value of that kind of experience helps explain why there's little organized resistance to unpaid internships in the U.S. These jobs have become such a widely acknowledged stepping stone to employment that in late March, the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank in Washington, proposed the...