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• New Law Helps Find Jobs for Veterans

  The VOW to Hire Heroes Act, signed into law in November 2011, calls for the creation of a program that pays for unemployed veterans to receive training in fields where skilled workers are in high demand, as determined by the U.S. Department … Read more...

• How the Fall of the Euro Will Affect Us All

  Europe. Land of classic artistic masterpieces, of perfect flaky croissants, of crushing debt that threatens to destabilize the global economy. Read more...

• May's Unemployment Numbers Show Relief for Hardest Hit States

  In Michigan, the jobless rate fell from 10.6 percent in May 2011 to 8.5 percent last month. Nevada's unemployment rate fell from 13.7 percent to 11.6 percent over the same period, and Florida's rate fell from 10.6 percent to 8.6 percent. Read more...

• Need a Job? Move to the Midwest

  The Midwest continued to be the best place for job-seekers last month, according to data recently released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The states in the center of the country had an average unemployment rate of 7.2 percent in … Read more...

• Make Expiring Tax Cuts Work for You

  It has been just a few blessed weeks since April 15, when we all emerged from stacks of 1099s and W-2s and declared ourselves ready to forget about taxes for another year. Not so fast. The tax cuts put in place during the previous … Read more...

• Are You Worth a Swimming Pool, Microwave or Beach Ball?

  Apple's cash reserves could fill 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools with $1 bills. I decided to take this logic a step further and look at how much space other sums of money would occupy. How much space would the average American household … Read more...

• Are Young Workers the "Go Nowhere" Generation?

  Whether or not you believe Millennials are sedentary or risk averse, the article includes research by economist Lisa B. Kahn of the Yale School of Management showing, "…those who graduated from college during a poor economy experienced a … Read more...

• Immigration Discrimination: 4 Illegal Employer Practices

  Employers must know that while they have the obligation to obey immigration law by hiring only authorized workers, they also must not violate anti-discrimination laws when hiring or firing workers. Read more...

• 70-Year-Old Census Records Highlight Shifts in the Working World

  For many of us today, working means cubicles and computers and commutes. It means colleagues who have graduated high school, and many who have also finished college. It means earning tens of thousands of dollars every year. But recently … Read more...

• Ann Romney, Hilary Rosen & the Value of Mothers

  The ongoing political debate about the so-called "war on women" took an unexpected turn this week when a comment by Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen ignited anger among those who feel she was denigrating the work of stay-at-home mothers. Read more...

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