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- Unemployment insurance board fires top administrative officer 24 Jul 2008 07:32 GMT
... Unemployment insurance board fires top administrative officer The ... cases to be resolved in 30 days. California currently only resolves 6 percent of its ...
- Laguna Beach buys dayworker site from Caltrans 24 Jul 2008 07:31 GMT
... But until this week, the rugged property, now outfitted with portable ... and a paid monitor, belonged to the California Department of Transportation. The California Transportation Commission approved ... the city is doing is facilitating illegal employment, and on both sides," Orfanedes said. "A ...
- Short takes 24 Jul 2008 07:24 GMT
... Some solutions to gnawing problems are so obvious they (paradoxically) ... the law. So we went to the California DMV website, where the police exemption was described ... authorized emergency vehicle during the course of employment are exempt ... If you believe the ...
- Full-time workers deserve more than poverty-level income 24 Jul 2008 07:09 GMT
... Full-time workers deserve more than poverty-level income When restaurants ... call with economists at the University of California-Berkeley , who conducted extensive minimum-wage studies. The ... teens, after historic minimum-wage increases reflected overall unemployment increases due to cyclical economic conditions, not ...
- Slow economy affects graduates 24 Jul 2008 06:56 GMT
... With politicians talking about things such as job creation, ... to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate has risen to 5.5 percent, up ... from Kelly Bedard at the University of California-Santa Barbara and Douglas Herman from the Federal ...
- Have we gone insane? 24 Jul 2008 06:51 GMT
... Last week's poll sponsored by Time magazine and the Rockefeller ... reported on how after the 1994 Northridge, California earthquake, thousands of homeowners who didn't even ... Labor estimates that about $3.4 billion in unemployment insurance benefits was overpaid nationwide in 2004 ...
- Workers must search our past to find a solution to the housing crisis. 24 Jul 2008 06:37 GMT
... Workers must search our past to find a solution to ... of the system we live in. In California, foreclosures have hit a 20-year high. There ... organizations. The Communist Party organized the National Unemployment Councils and played a major role in ...
- China clamps down on issuing business visas 24 Jul 2008 06:20 GMT
... Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - Page updated at ... until late September, unless the visa involves employment or business contracts, an official with the ... to this report. Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company ...
- Minimum wage will increase today, but is it effective policy? 24 Jul 2008 06:05 GMT
... Minimum wage will increase today, but is it effective policy? ... an economics professor at the University of California-Irvine, said low-income families are generally hurt by ... California-Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment just released two reports on the impact ...
- Fed Report Says Economy Continued to Slow 24 Jul 2008 05:54 GMT
... The Fed's beige book report for June and July, considered a ... back in the face of a weak job market and higher gasoline prices. Consumer spending accounts ... prices declined sharply in parts of Arizona, California and Nevada. Credit standards remained tight in ...
- Agencies asked to ease safety rules 24 Jul 2008 05:37 GMT
... Last updated July 23, 2008 10:00 p.m. PT White ... thousands of ways. In recent months, the Seattle P-I has reported on the hazards of diacetyl, a ... Washington University. Murray, chairwoman of the Senate Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee, agreed. "For eight ...
- No time to be sick 24 Jul 2008 05:36 GMT
... Many in the U.S. simply tough it out, show up at ... health officials. In May, legislation cleared the California Assembly that would allow workers to earn one ... the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment who has studied the proposed laws. "In ...
- Officer's firing unjustified, board says 24 Jul 2008 05:25 GMT
... Last updated July 23, 2008 9:13 p.m. PT Judicial panel orders Seattle to reinstate 20-year veteran Last year, a longtime Seattle ... "Who has the right to terminate someone's employment based on charges or allegations? I mean, ...
- Mich. voters back offshore drilling, nukes 24 Jul 2008 04:34 GMT
... residents to back offshore drilling in Florida, California and other states with ocean shorelines. Nearly ... have gone into that small area of Alaska to get the oil there," said survey participant Pat McGoldrick, ... has been ravaged by the country's highest unemployment rate, a rapidly dwindling domestic auto market ...
- Immigration laws impact Oregonians 24 Jul 2008 04:30 GMT
... According to a recent study, Oregon could see a loss of up to 170,000 ... industries will be hit the hardest. Oregon's unemployment rate is not expected to have a ...
- AARP the Magazine Names the Top 10 Healthiest Places to Live in America 24 Jul 2008 04:30 GMT
... AARP the Magazine Names the Top 10 Healthiest Places ... in the U.S. in 1940. 2. Honolulu, Hawaii : An impressive 95% of residents are covered by health ... and Quality. 9. San Francisco Bay Area, California : Residents are among the least likely ...
- Default notifications surge to record high 24 Jul 2008 04:28 GMT
... Blighted by sinking home values and the risky loans that ... down," said Mark Schniepp, director of the California Forecast Project in Goleta. In Ventura County, ... to keep defaults elevated. The economy (rising unemployment), tighter lending standards, resetting ARMS and Option ...
- Gold Rush needs BIR 24 Jul 2008 04:27 GMT
... In the eight years since the Gold Rush Ranch ... apparent. The beneficial impact on the local job market is beyond estimation. The Gold Rush organization ... par with Claveran's Salmon Run in Brookings, Oregon, and StoneTree Golf Club, on the former site ...
- New hybrid power plant could affect Mich. energy industry 24 Jul 2008 04:26 GMT
... New hybrid power plant could affect Mich. energy industry The ... people are moving to (Washington,) D.C. and California and other states that have a huge job market where people are looking for green jobs.” ...
- A bad couple of years, or a bad decade? 24 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
... Officially, no. The economy is not in recession until a ... this is not the Great Depression, when unemployment spiked to 25 percent and millions of ... than 30 percent in some parts of California and Florida — as buyers fail to ...
- Bank investors redefine bad news 24 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
... For now, at least, some investors seem to have become so ... Plunging home prices, particularly in Florida and California, have left 14 percent of the bank's ... in New York. "If we have significant unemployment or a recession, that is what I ...
- 'High incomes' tax more fair 24 Jul 2008 01:17 GMT
... Last updated July 23, 2008 5:07 p.m. PT Last ... actually fallen as a share of overall employment in each of the last five years. ... of the Economic Opportunity Institute (eoionline.org) in Seattle. ...
- Read Six Months and Counting for Overtime Pay 24 Jul 2008 00:37 GMT
... Brunswick, GA: Allison was a general manager in the hospitality ... are on an hourly basis. Our state employment law states that if a person is ... laws are employer-friendly not employee-friendly, except in California. The majority of the employees have quit but ...
- East does not meet West on China's ... 24 Jul 2008 00:36 GMT
... East does not meet West on China's self-image East does not ... of political science at the University of California and a former deputy assistant secretary for ... gap, official corruption and air pollution and unemployment. People in the poor areas of central ...
- Hawaii reports 6 'mass layoffs' in June 24 Jul 2008 00:35 GMT
... There were six "mass layoffs" in Hawaii in June, which resulted in the loss of ... are 50 or more initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits from one employer during a ...
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