Jobs Blog November Archive

Green Jobs Not The Answer In Iowa

11/24/09 13:37

Iowa, like most states, continues to watch its rate of unemployment creep gradually upwards as many industries suffer and businesses shut down. The rate of unemployment reached 6.7% last month, compared with 4.3% this time last year.

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How Colorado Can Attract More Jobs

As the whole nation struggles with high and rising rates of unemployement and redundancy, each state has become a competitor desperately seeking the investment of big companies, but who is winning? and why?

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The Task Of Measuring Unemployment In California

Many people are really wondering how long this can go on - although the number of non-farm job offers actually increased by 25,700 last month, the unemployment rate in sunny California continues to rise and has now reached 12.5%. However there are so many figures and statistics flying around the newspaper columns these days who are we supposed to believe?

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Is Green Energy The Answer?

As solar panel producers "Evergreen Solar" shift assembly line jobs from Massachusetts to China, many started to worry about the fate of Evergreen's facility in Midland Michigan. Despite receiving tax breaks and more than $58 million in state funding to set up their factory just outside Boston, the company has come under increasing pressure to move to a location which offers a more competitive environment.

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What Is Best For Colorado's Economy?

As federal funding finally reaches its destinations, many states are deciding what are the most important sectors for keeping their state economies afloat. Senator Gail Schwarz has voiced her obvious concern with continued job losses in the state and is working closely with the Department of Labor in order to create new jobs.

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Is Stumulus Money Creating Jobs In Kentucky?

As state's across the nation are starting to see the arrival of long promised federal funding, Kentucky is on the receiving end of $2.2 billion, and is using it to create or preserve jobs in many fields including education, health care and public safety. Governor Steve Beshear has said that education remains a top priority and without this funding cost cutting measures would have really been felt in classrooms across the state.

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Washingtons Changing Economy

One in every four jobs in Washington depends on trade. However as world trade falters during the current economic crisis this may not continue to be the case. Washington may make things the world wants to buy, but there is growing competition from every angle. China continues to grow, and produce increasingly cheaper goods. Not only that, but Washington also faces rivals to its port services as Asian cargo is gradually shifting to East coast and even Canadian ports.

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Wind Energy In West Texas

With so much talk of carbon emissions, energy efficiency, green energy and so on, an investment in wind energy seems like a very clever decision.

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