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Front Page: Unemployment Might Create a Lost Generation
- The job crisis is hitting young people just out of college especially hard, which could have a long-term negative impact on an entire generation. — Business Week
- American Elinor Ostrom has become the first woman to win the Nobel prize for economics. — BBC News
- Iraq's National Theater has opened again for the first time in six years, as nightlife begins to return to Baghdad.
Front Page: Huge Gender Pay Disparity in UK's Financial Sector
- Women who work in the UK financial sector can earn about 80 percent less than men, according to a new inquiry. — The Guardian
- An Obama adviser who came under fire for being tied to the 9/11 Truth movement has quit. — AP
- President Obama will make the case for a public insurance plan when he speaks to a joint session of Congress about health care on Wednesday.
Could You Do Your Partner's Job?
Despite the passing of the "lion of the Senate," the people of Massachusetts might soon have another Senator Kennedy at their service. Democratic leaders like Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen.
How Has Being a Woman Impacted Your Job?
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the subject of an extensive New York Times Magazine profile this week in which she discusses "the place of women on the court." At her confirmation hearings in 1993, Ginsburg said she hoped to see at least three or four women seated on the court after her. As she still waits for even one woman to join her, Ginsburg has noticed that she is judged differently than her male counterparts.
What Was Your Worst Summer Job?
Before we all get the fabulous jobs that express our personalities and true abilities — we often have to suck it up in crap jobs.
Yes, they help us build character. Yes, we learn how to budget small amounts of money, learning the valuable fiscal lesson that no amount of saving will buy us a trip to Paris and allow us to purchase our dream wardrobes on a part-time, minimum-wage salary.
Front Page: US Unemployment Rate Jumps to 9.4%
- US unemployment has jumped to 9.4 percent, after 345,000 jobs were lost in May. Sorry, the recession's not over yet. — New York Times
- President Obama is in Germany, where he visited a Nazi concentration camp in Buchenwald.
Chronically Awesome? Don’t Put That on Your Resumé
I thought this was a joke, but this career strategist must have seen these words in resumés before if she’s cautioning job-seekers not to use them. So, uh, if you were planning on telling a prospective employer you’re “habitually pregnant” or an “awesome Republican” — yeah, don’t do that.
Here are some words not to put on your resumé:
- Awesome
- Democrat
- Chronically ill
- Habitually pregnant
- Atheist
Front Page: US Sheds 598,000 Jobs in January
- The US unemployment rate jumped to 7.6 percent, after 598,000 jobs were lost in January. — New York Times
- The Senate worked into the night Thursday but failed to vote on the stimulus package. — CNN
- President Obama will name a panel of independent economic advisers that will offer their outside advice to the White House.
Front Page: US Unemployment Reaches Grim High at 6.5%
- The US unemployment reached a 14-year high of 6.5 percent today. About 240,000 nonfarm jobs were lost in October alone. So far this year 1.2 million US jobs have been lost.— Bloomberg
- The still being recounted Minnesota Senate race between Al Franken and Senator Norm Coleman came within a margin of 236 votes at the end of Thursday.
Young Indians Ready to Hang Up on Call Center Jobs
Politicians constantly talk about how US jobs have been shipped over seas. But something else travels with the jobs — stress. While 70 percent of outsourced American jobs go to India's call centers, stressed-out Indian youth want to ditch their unhealthy posts for more fulfilling careers.
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