Results tagged “unemployment”

A $600 million budget gap could lead to trimming 2,000 state jobs, not to mention other cost-cutting measures. [Boston Globe]...The Mass. unemployment rate jumped to 9.2% in September, which might mean the Bay State is still in a recession. [Boston Herald]...Potential amendments to the state's transportation reform bill could eliminate some of the saving that was the purpose of the reforms. [Boston Herald]

• Obama visited Buchenwald. [Globe]
• One in ten are unemployed! Aagh! [Forbes]
• Feder vs. Soderling! Where is our Nadal? [NYT]

• President Obama gave Queen Elizabeth II an iPod. That's not news. What's news is what's on it—Dylan? Stevie Wonder? Some people have questioned the gift, but at least it's less self-centered than what the queen gave him: a picture of herself. Cute, Lizzy. [Globe]
• Soon, you may no longer be able to ease the pain of unemployment with drugs. Except alcohol and tobacco. Because those don't count. [CNN]
• Margaret Greer tries the craiglist defense. [Globe]

• The Barenaked Ladies are still naked, but now minus Steven Page. Mix 98-5 has an interview. [WBZ]
• PWD FTW! [Globe]
• Even Disney's offering deals in this economy. [NYT]

Unemployment has hit 6.9% in the state last month, the highest it's been in 15 years but still lower than the national average of 7.2%. Education and health services jobs constituted a somewhat bright (or at least less dim) spot, growing by 1.5% last year according to the Executive Office of Workforce Development. Most other sectors were down for the year, with notable declines in Trade, Transportation and Utilities as well as Construction.

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