Oregon's November unemployment rate was 11.1%, down marginally from October's revised rate of 11.2%, but job losses increased, losing 4,600 jobs compared to Octobers more modest 1,800.
The Governor of Illinois is all excited as Obama may move the Gitmo Prisoners to a facility in his State.Climate change and what to do about it has been a contentious topic for some time now. Although Al Gores film, An Inconvenient Truth, did a terrific job of telling the story about the threat of global warming, too many people dont believe they can or should do anything [...]
Inc. Magazine has announced their top entrepreneurs of the decade (2000-2009). Here is the list:
1. Steve Jobs of Apple
2. Jeff Bezos Amazon
3. Jack Ma, Alibaba.com
4. Martha Stewart
5. Jack Mackey, Whole Foods
6. Leslie Blodgett, Bare Essentials
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Temp hiring is on the rise in Oregon, a trend that often foreshadows a racheting up in the permanent work force. Workers in the employment services job category, which includes temps, increased by 11.5 percent from April through October, according to state employment data, compared with a 2 [...]
After all, they've done such a great job of managing money for the trust funds of American Indians.
Federal Indian law — or the law pertaining to the land and other holdings owned by Native Americans — isn’t a typical area of coverage for us. But when a lawsuit between' [...]
HT: WWeek for catching the video below "Change" that was posted 21 hours ago.
Now today, 45 minutes ago, Team Dudley has published a second video entitled "Jobs."
Thoughts?
UPDATE: Interesting...
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President Obama's job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any...
In the Portland Tech community it is unheard of not to have a side project, something that you love to do but that doesn’t fit squarely into the tech industry or has nothing to do with your day job. Many of us have multiple labors of [...]
...is not going to come from Loaded Orygun. That's a job that was mostly being done while I was making my way back from the Garden Saturday night, stewing and just feeling a little sick. But for a story that carries national interest in the sports world, you might come [...]
Up today at BoingBoing is an article pointing to an interview at BldgBlog, which explores the considerations amongst the theorists whose job is to imagine a nuclear waste repository that actually works.
Naturally, the span of time such a facility will need to contain the waste beggars comprehension. Originally the [...]
Canada remains the second leading exporter of chrysotile asbestos, the type that's linked to mesothelioma--a vicious type of lung cancer (previous blog here). The nation has long fought against international rules limiting or banning the trade of chrysotile because of the political influence of its asbestos miners, especially in [...]
On Carla's post yesterday about the so-called "job-killing taxes", a commenter (Bob Wiggins) marched out a tried-and-true line to attack the measures.
Whether or not this particular business will be hurt seems less important than the fact that these tax measures together will suck [...]Washington and Oregon are both Democrat leaning states, so these two polls should come as a bit of a surprise to many.
Do you approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as President?
Washington: 47%...
In the uber-market-tested world of campaigns, I suspect "job-killing-taxes" was found to be at least an 8 on the absolute scale of awesomeness when it comes to trying to defeat the revenue measures on the ballot. After all, everybody likes jobs. Nobody wants to "kill" them. That said, the dubious [...]
By Steve Hynd
Spencer Ackerman does a great job of being an impartial journalist so he shouldn't come in for too much mocking, but he's posted his own position on the Afghanistan escalation in a way that needs to be mentioned and mocked just once. The post is titled' [...]
