Retailers enter the hiring season
Tis the season to be hiring. Local retailers are hiring seasonal help to get them through what is expected to be a slightly better holiday shopping season than last year. For Margaret Hutcheson, owner of Horsin Around at Pony Village Mall, this seas...
 3.9K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 64.0 Here is a look at unemployment rates around the world:
GERMANY German unemployment fell for a second month in October, but the effects of the financial crisis lingered and it is still too early to expect a turnaround in the economy, the country s labor ministry said. The unadjusted jobless rate in Euro...
3.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 512.0 EU feels employment pinch
PARIS (AP) Despite signs of an economic revival gathering pace around the globe, the millions of people laid off are unlikely to see relief any time soon as joblessness is still climbing in many of the world s largest economies. The European Union ...
1.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 166.0 Hitting 10 percent
WASHINGTON (AP) The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 and is likely to go higher. Nearly 16 million people can t find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended. Man...
7.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 588.0 Obama to sign jobless benefit
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is set to sign a $24 billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the longtime jobless who have been left behind as the economy veers...
4.4K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 213.0 We need jobs not health care
How many times have you heard Barack Obama talk about the fierce urgency of now ? The president has used the quote, from Martin Luther King Jr., to call for quick action on the war in Iraq, on global warming, on homelessness, on education you name...
3.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 64.0 Holiday outlook improves as jobs, spending rally
The Associated Press The U.S. economy yielded some encouraging news today on two of its biggest trouble spots consumer spending and jobs. Consumers, enticed by cooler weather and an improving economy, spent a little more in October. They gave the ...
1.7K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 101.0 First-time jobless claims stay high in Oregon
PORTLAND (AP) State figures show that enough jobless Oregonians to populate a small city applied for unemployment benefits in October. Figures released Wednesday put initial jobless claims at 12,681 for the last week of the month. That s 54,514 for...
0.9K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 256.0 Congress set to clear aid to jobless, homebuyers
WASHINGTON (AP) The House is poised to send the White House a bill extending aid to more than a million people in danger of exhausting jobless benefits and additional tax credits for prospective homebuyers crucial to rejuvenating the housing market...
3.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 534.0 Tax breaks cost state more than predicted
PORTLAND (AP) State officials deliberately underestimated the cost of Gov. Ted Kulongoski s plan to lure green energy companies to Oregon with big taxpayer subsidies, resulting in a program that cost 40 times more than unsuspecting lawmakers were t...
11.0K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 64.0 Reports: Federal stimulus sends $1.8B to Oregon
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon has received about $1.8 billion in the first eight months of the federal stimulus program credited with saving or creating nearly 10,000 jobs in the state. Reports released Friday showed the largest number of jobs saved by...
3.1K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 101.0 Bankers got bonuses; workers got pink slips
Way too many regional residents aren t paying attention to what is going on in the country (let alone the world), and how consequences of decisions made over the horizon affect us here. Often these repercussions filter down indirectly, mixed in with ...
2.3K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 64.0 Flat income raises concern
WASHINGTON (AP) Flat incomes suggest more weakness ahead in consumer spending, reinforcing concerns about a ho-hum holiday shopping season and a sluggish economic recovery. This recovery is going to be very weak. Consumers are in no position or moo...
4.0K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 128.0 Obama seeks credit for ending recession
WASHINGTON (AP) Tugged in different political directions, the White House is seeking credit for good economic news and trying to escape blame for the bad stuff. President Barack Obama greeted as obviously welcome news a government report showing ...
1.2K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 64.0 Stimulus creating jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) About 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama s economic stimulus plan, the White House said today, saying it is on track to reach the president s goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year. New jo...
2.0K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 256.0 Economy sees its first boost since spring '08
WASHINGTON The economy grew at a 3.5 percent pace in the third quarter, the best showing in two years, fueled by government-supported spending on cars and homes. It s the strongest signal yet that the economy has entered a new, though fragile, pha...
7.1K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 460.0 Geithner: Economy on the mend
WASHINGTON (AP) Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he sees positive signs that the economy is recovering, although the recession remains alive and acute for families dealing with unemployment and facing home foreclosure. In testimony before...
0.6K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 64.0 Against all things Obama
OK, so President Barack Obama hasn t accomplished enough to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize under the conventional approach. There is, no doubt, some courageous political prisoner somewhere in the world who has been in home confinement for decades f...
3.2K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 64.0 Recession is over, but job losses aren't
WASHINGTON It s about to become official: The recession is over but not the pain. The government will release figures this week expected to show that the economy has awakened from its deepest slump since the 1930s and is in the early stages of a ...
6.2K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 460.0 100 banks have failed this year
WASHINGTON (AP) Bank closings for the year hit 100 on Friday when regulators shut down Partners Bank in Florida. Financial institutions nationwide have collapsed under the weight of soured real estate loans and the Great Recession. The Federal Depo...
5.1K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 101.0 | 
