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• New census center will begin hiring

  —Delusional Duck

  Southern Marylanders seeking work can look to hundreds of federal jobs coming to La Plata — temporarily. The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday officially opened a local census office on the third floor of the Baldus Centre at 101 E. Charles St. The installation will require 600 to 700 workers, most [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:51pm EST
  

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• October unemployment at 7.3 percent in Maryland

  —Delusional Duck

  Employers added jobs in Maryland last month, but not enough to keep the unemployment rate from rising, the federal government said Friday morning. The U.S. Department of Labor estimated that Maryland businesses and agencies filled 1,500 new positions last month. Job creation has come in fits and starts this year, the [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:30pm EST
  

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• GAO Takes Stock Of Recovery.gov Stimulus Glitches

  —Salisbury News

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  The Government Accountability Office released a report (PDF) today criticizing the quality of the data used to calculate how many jobs have been generated by the stimulus.
  

  
  

  Welcome to the club, GAO. Here are some of the highlights:
  Nearly 4,000 reports filed [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:45am EST
  by joealbero

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• First Click -- Maryland

  —Maryland Moment

  Your daily download of Maryland's top political news and analysis Friday, Nov. 20, 2009: O'Malley to tout new jobs in port deal Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) this morning is expected to announce the award of a long-term partnership with Ports America to operate an expanded, state-owned Seagirt Marine Terminal in [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:12am EST
  

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• Whoops! Recovery.gov Shows Money Flowing To Nonexistent Districts

  —Salisbury News

  
  The government Web site that promised to show exactly where the $787 billion in stimulus spending was going to "create or save" jobs is allocating billions of tax dollars to hundreds of congressional districts that don’t exist.
  
  Researchers at the Franklin Center for Government [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:31am EST
  by Phronesis

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• O'Malley to announce major port partnership, tout jobs

  —Maryland Moment

  Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is expected to announce Friday the award of a long-term partnership with Ports America to operate an expanded, state-owned Seagirt Marine Terminal in southeast Baltimore. The deal will be touted as creating 5,700 jobs, something O'Malley (D) is likely to play up in his remarks, according [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:23pm EST
  

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• Cut and close

  —Maryland Politics Today

  For the third time since the spending plan took effect this past July, Governor Martin O’Malley had to make budget cuts.  This time to the tune of $362 million.  As a result, 112 state jobs were cut and the Upper Shore Community Mental Health Center in Chestertown will be shuttered [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:15pm EST
  by Kenneth Burns

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• GOVERNOR MARTIN O’MALLEY BRINGS FY2010 SPENDING REDUCTIONS TO OVER $1 BILLION

  —Salisbury News

  Number of comments: 10
  Budget actions maintain Triple A bond rating; Protect public education, public safety, and jobs
  
  ANNAPOLIS, MD (November 18, 2009) – Governor Martin O’Malley introduced more than $360 million in budget actions before the Board of Public Works today, bringing total spending reductions for FY2010 thus far to over $1 [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:25pm EST
  by joealbero

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• Salvation Army Overrun With Bell-Ringer Applicants

  —Salisbury News

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  The Salvation Army in Grand Junction, Colo., says it has received 150 applications for 30 jobs that pay $8 an hour and often are filled by disabled residents or the homeless. KUSA-TV's Chris Vanderveen [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:52pm EST
  by joealbero

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• Kratovil Introduces AMERICA Works Act

  —Salisbury News

  Number of comments: 7
  Legislation will strengthen manufacturing in the United States and create jobs.
  
  Washington, DC – This week, Rep. Frank Kratovil joined fellow freshman legislators Rep. Walt Minnick (ID), Rep. Debbie Halvorson (IL), and Rep. Bobby Bright (AL) in introducing H.R. 4072, the AMERICA Works Act.
  
  The AMERICA (American [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:30pm EST
  by joealbero

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• Stimulating Dishonesty

  —Baltimore Reporter

  From Flopping Aces How Obama’s “jobs saved and created” scam has introduced a new level of dishonesty to government statistics! It’s no secret that Obama’s claim of saving or creating 650,000 jobs is an utter fantasy. But now, the sheer dishonesty and bungling incompetence of the effort to hoodwink Americans into believing [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:57pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

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• Feds, retailers flooded with job applications

  —Delusional Duck

  From federal government clerk positions to grocery store cashiers, the competition for jobs is phenomenal. Applications for all types of positions are flooding in. “We are pretty much overwhelmed with the number of applications that we are receiving for every job posting,” says Deputy Associate Director of the Center for [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:28am EST
  

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• Saving Jobs All Over Maryland

  —Hedgehog Report

  This is becoming a great day as be reported all around the blogosphere about the jobs being saved all over the country in state after state according to Recovery.gov. So I might as well jump in and share the great news about the jobs being saved in Maryland. You see, ... [...]

  Fetched: November 16, 2009, 11:27pm EST
  

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• Obama Admin Slashed 60,000 Jobs From Recent Stimulus Report

  —Salisbury News

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  Office of Management & Budget Document: 12 Stimulus Recipients Reported 'Unrealistic Job Data'
  
  The Obama administration, under fire for inflating job growth from the $787 billion stimulus plan, slashed over 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on the program because the reporting [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:01pm EST
  by joealbero

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• Microsoft Comes to Chevy Chase

  —Maryland Politics Watch

  Following is the county's press release.
  
  Contact:
  Kristina Ellis, DED, 240-793-9568
  Tonya Klause, Microsoft, 703-402-7020
  
  For Immediate Release: November 13, 2009
  
  Microsoft Celebrates New Chevy Chase Office
  Will Bring 500+ New, Relocated Jobs to the County
  
  Montgomery County Department of Economic Development Director Steve Silverman joined' [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:00pm EST
  

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• With budget, third cut is the deepest

  —Delusional Duck

  Taxes could be the ultimate spending plan gap closer, Levy says Amid a recession that seems to be waning even as jobs are not returning, Maryland finds itself with a budget gap that at least one budget hawk in the legislature says will take new taxes to fill. Gov. Martin O’Malley is [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:10am EST
  

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• U.S. MANUFACTURERS COMMEND REP. KRATOVIL FOR OPPOSING HEALTH CARE LEGISLATION

  —Salisbury News

  Legislation Would Drive Up Costs, Kill Jobs
  
  WASHINGTON, D.C., The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) commends Representative Frank Kratovil (D-MD) for opposing the “Affordable Health Care for America Act” (H.R. 3962). This legislation will shift even more costs to private sector health care plans, impose expensive new mandates on [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:00am EST
  by joealbero

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• Area suffers housing shortage near job centers

  —Delusional Duck

  The Washington region has a shortage of housing close to where jobs are located. Housing that is there is unaffordable to people making 60 percent to 100 percent of the area’s median income of $102,700 for a family of four. [...] The region is short about 40,000 affordable units near these [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 7:35am EST
  

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• Maryland One of Most INEFFICIENT States in Stimulus Spending

  —OMalleyWatch.com

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  I know that it has been a while since I’ve done some original reporting, but I think this one is definitely worth it and somebody needs to expose that Governor Martin O’Malley has created less jobs with his stimulus money than almost any other State. Vice-President Joe Biden held a [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 7:21am EST
  by Martin Watcher

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• Unemployment Hits 10.2%

  —Salisbury News

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  The unemployment rate spiked to its highest level since 1983, much worse than expected as employers continue to trim jobs despite other signs of growth.
  
  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The nation's unemployment rate rose above 10% for the first time since 1983 in October, [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:45am EST
  by joealbero

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• U.S. jobless rate tops 10 percent for October

  —Delusional Duck

  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. Many economists worry that persistently high unemployment could undermine the recovery by restraining consumer [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:07pm EST
  

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• Coulter: Election 2009: Change I Can Believe In!

  —Carroll Standard

  MSNBC, Aug. 31, 2009, Keith Olbermann on Robert F. McDonnell, Republican candidate for governor of Virginia:

  "In (McDonnell's master's thesis), he described women having jobs as detrimental to the family, called legalized use of contraception illogical, pushed to make divorce more difficult, and insisted government should favor married couples over, quote," [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:23am EST
  

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• Sour 'stimulus' plan reduces employment

  —Carroll Standard

  A former official with the White House Office of Management and Budget says the net number of jobs created by President Obama's "stimulus" program is zero or worse.

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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 1:41pm EST
  

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• Millions without sick leave fear swine flu

  —Delusional Duck

  For millions of Americans the rule is simple: If you don’t come to work, you don’t get paid. That idea drives an untold numbers of carpenters, day care workers, servers, shopkeepers and small-business owners to their jobs each day. Sniffles or not. As the swine flu spreads across the nation — and [...]

  Posted: November 02, 2009, 1:15pm EST
  

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• O’Malley Continues to Spend Maryland Into the Poorhouse

  —Salisbury News

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  While claiming to have “saved” 14,000 jobs, thanks to the Obama PORKULUS, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley continues to spend the once-Free State into the proverbial poorhouse.  O’Malley, like his leftist pals in DC, hope to pull the wool over our eyes.  There is no such thing [...]

  Posted: November 02, 2009, 7:04am EST
  by G. A. Harrison

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• O’Malley Joins Biden and Schwarzenegger to Tout Stimulus Jobs

  —Delusional Duck

  By BOBBY MCMAHON [...] While all three lauded the successes of the stimulus—including the announcement Thursday that the gross domestic product rose 3.5 percent in the third quarter—they each empathized with the millions of Americans hurt by the recession. Tens of millions remain unemployed. And in a sign that the recovery [...]

  Posted: November 02, 2009, 7:03am EST
  

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• Half of workers changing jobs cash out 401(k)

  —Delusional Duck

  Millions of workers take a huge chance with their retirement savings every year: They cash out their 401(k) accounts when they lose their jobs or move to new employers. When people cash out, a chunk of their money just disappears. Employers and financial advisers have warned workers about the possibility of retiring [...]

  Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:20am EST
  

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• County Parks to Lay-Off Gate Attendants

  —The No BS Zone

  
  The No BS Zone has learned that, effective November 11th, the Department of Recreation and Parks will temporarily lay-off gate attendants at Downs, Ft. Smallwood and Kinder Parks. It's anticipated these workers can return to their jobs come February. While this silly move will likely' [...]

  Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:03am EST
  

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• Boehner: 'The Trillion-Dollar 'Stimulus' Isn't Working, and No Amount of Phony Statistics Can Change That

  —Carroll Standard

  WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /Standard Newswire/ -- House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement today in response to news reports that the White House will issue a report claiming 'stimulus' jobs "saved or created" on a state-by-state basis:

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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 1:11am EST
  

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• Schools Are Where Stimulus Saved Jobs

  —Salisbury News

  Number of comments: 4
  
  More than half of positions saved were teachers, White House report shows
  
  The best symbol of the $787 billion federal stimulus program turns out not to be of a construction worker in a hard hat, but rather of a classroom teacher saved from a layoff.
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 6:41pm EDT
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