Highlights of Senate legislation extending unemployment insurance and expired tax breaks: --Tax relief: Extends through 2010 a variety of popular tax breaks that expired at the...
Britishbanks and building societies have been ordered by regulators to check that they could withstand another two years of recession, millions more people losing their jobs and a 23 per cent fall in house prices. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has in the past...
WASHINGTON - Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama, a bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on its leader to help stave off expected...
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. mortgage applications nudged up last week, reflecting increased demand for home purchase loans even as interest rates trekked higher, data from an industrygroup showed on Wednesday. If demand for purchase loans, a tentative early...
BEIJING - Hu Xiaoyan, one of China's first three national legislators who represent the country's millions of migrant workers, has had her official residency status transferred from her rural hometown in Sichuan to the city she now works in Guangdong. To become an urban...
BEIJING - Oversupply of labor in China's vast rural areas will continue now and for years to come, as China's migrant workers numbered about 230 million in 2009, Vice-Minister of Agriculture Wei Chao'an said here on Wednesday. Wei told a...
RALEIGH -- North Carolina's workforce is bracing for what could be more bad news. The Employment Security Commission today releases unemployment figures for January. The jobless rate has already hovered at the historic high of around 11 percent for 11 months. January...
Most university degrees condemn graduates to menial jobs serving coffee in Starbucks, one of the City's top professional bodies warned today. Teenagers would be better off taking a gap year after school and going straight into work, according to the Chartered Institute...
- swiegand@sacbee.com thefresnobee_994:/2010/03/10/1853218/schwarzenegger-wants-more-drilling.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name tool goes here Comments (0) |...