|
Economic Employment News
guardian.co.uk Society:
Number of school-leavers not in education, work or training tops a million for the first time, figures showThe number of school-leavers not in education, work or training has topped a million, the highest total on record, gov (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Labour hope new cash will stop young jobless hitting 1m ahead of electionFear of youth unemployment rising above 1 million in the new year prompted Gordon Brown to use the last Queen's speech of the parliament to promise more (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Recession has magnified the misery of homelessness in the world's richest country. This crisis deserves Obama's attentionLast week's United Nations' findings on America's homeless crisis couldn't have been more timely or more (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Brendan Barber says sustainable growth is needed to nurse public finances back to health"Slash and burn" spending cuts could sentence the UK to a decade as a Japanese-style "zombie economy," TUC general secretary Brendan Barb (Read More)
The Guardian:
With inflation stronger than expected, the UK's recovery is still vulnerable to attackHang out the bunting. Prepare for the street parties. Wave the union flags. After six long quarters of recession, Mervyn King emerged from (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Firms reporting improved access to finance dropped to 3%• half of all employers are planning wage freezes The Bank of England's £200bn quantitative easing programme has failed to improve access to finance for businesses and (Read More)
The Guardian:
The recession has worsened the plight of Asian workers in UAE and elsewhere. Their rights are only slowly being addressedThe exploitation of migrant workers in the Gulf states has been worrying human rights groups for some ti (Read More)
The Guardian:
Pinning America's economic woes on China is too easy. The real villains are Wall Street bankers and their influenceBarack Obama is travelling to Asia this week and has promised to say something about the exchange rate between (Read More)
Nov 11, 2009
The Guardian:
None of this can mask the amount of debt accumulated in both the private and public sectorsYippee, the economy will soon be growing at 4%, according to the Bank of England's quarterly inflation report. And now the unemploymen (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
They are the backbone of the economy, but small businesses are still finding credit expensive and hard to come byThe recovery of the British economy is being hindered by the problems of the crucial small business sector in ac (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The gap between low-paid low-skilled workers and high earners is already too greatDespite much talk of a return to growth, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics did not give the government or the economi (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
If the UK fails to get public expenditure back to a sustainable level, and restore a low tax regime, it risks decades of stagnationWhere did this fiscal crisis start?Most certainly, it is not just a function of the credit cri (Read More)
The Guardian:
With US unemployment leaping above 10%, politicians and policy-makers need to urgently rethink plans for recoveryLike a cold front on the weather map, everyone saw it coming. But that didn't mean that we weren't caught withou (Read More)
The Guardian:
Infrastructure spending and tax cuts likely as official figures show October was the 22nd consecutive month of job cutsBarack Obama admitted today that the rise in US unemployment above 10% last month was "sobering" as fears (Read More)
The Guardian:
Official figures show October was the 22nd consecutive month of job cutsThe US unemployment rate has broken through 10% for the first time since the early 1980s in a fresh sign of financial misery at grassroots level in the w (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - U.S. Economy:
NEW YORK -- Encouraging news on jobs and worker productivity gave investors new reason to be optimistic about the economy and pushed stocks to big gains.
. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Consumer confidence index hits highest level for 18 monthsConsumer confidence has picked up to its highest level for 18 months, according to a survey published today. However, people remain anxious about losing their jobs and (Read More)
The Guardian:
Obama has contained the economic fallout from the Bush years. Equality and prosperity, though, are a long way offIf Ronald Reagan began unravelling the New Deal social contract, Bush has tugged at the fraying fabric like a te (Read More)
Huffington Post:
NEW YORK — Grim signals about consumer spending ripped through the markets Friday, sending stocks tumbling as investors raced for safe havens.The Standard & Poor's 500 index and the Nasdaq composite index ended with losses fo (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Interim director of contracts Nick Hoare fired after allegedly using phrase including word 'nigger'A senior officer has been sacked from Boris Johnson's economic body the London Development Agency, after allegedly using a rac (Read More)
Add something
|
|
|
|
|
