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• Chamber CEO: HB2 may end Buncombe chance at 500 jobs - Asheville Citizen-Times

  08-04-2016 23:18 via citizen-times.com
  
  Asheville Citizen-Times
  Chamber CEO: HB2 may end Buncombe chance at 500 jobs
  Asheville Citizen-Times
  ASHEVILLE – A company considering bringing 500 well-paid technical jobs to Buncombe County says it won't do so unless changes are made to HB2, the president of the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce said Friday. Chamber President and CEO Kit ...and more »
  
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• Nurses quitting jobs for more money at McDonald's - NBC4i.com

  08-04-2016 22:45 via nbc4i.com
  
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  Nurses quitting jobs for more money at McDonald's
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  AUSTIN, TX (KXAN) — Some nurses and staff are quitting their jobs at Texas nursing homes for more money working at McDonald's. Advocates say it is a trend they are seeing state-wide causing a nursing shortage at long-term facilities. The Housing ...and more »
  
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• Office Jobs That Had The Biggest Pay Raises Last Year - Forbes

  08-04-2016 21:14 via forbes.com
  
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  Office Jobs That Had The Biggest Pay Raises Last Year
  Forbes
  It turns out that fortune is smiling upon those who work with phones for a living, as well as office managers. According to a report released this week by multinational human resources firm, Randstad, a number of office and administration positions at ...
  
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• Top jobs students should have - Daily Californian

  08-04-2016 16:24 via
  Top jobs students should have
  Daily Californian
  While there are some of us who really do genuinely love their part-time jobs by making people's mornings by greeting them with coffee or tutoring, there are many of us who could not give two Golden Bear Cafe burritos for the seemingly pointless and ...
  

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• Wise Words On Trade, Jobs And The Minimum Wage - Forbes

  08-04-2016 15:42 via
  Wise Words On Trade, Jobs And The Minimum Wage
  Forbes
  Rather by coincidence we've got two separate writers who both point out, in different ways, the inconsistencies in the ways in which people tend to think about trade, jobs and the minimum wage. Both sides tend to do this and I, of course I and I alone ...
  

• At the open: TSX rises after higher-than-expected jobs data - The Globe and Mail

  08-04-2016 15:41 via
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  At the open: TSX rises after higher-than-expected jobs data
  The Globe and Mail
  Canadian stocks rose on Friday after data showed Canada added far more jobs than expected last month, bringing the unemployment rate down from a three-year high. Data from Statistics Canada showed the economy created 40,600 jobs in March, ...and more »
  

• 4 Fed leaders face questions about their powerful jobs - CBS News

  08-04-2016 15:04 via
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  4 Fed leaders face questions about their powerful jobs
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  WASHINGTON -- Janet Yellen was put on the spot about whether she made a mistake in raising interest rates in December. Ben Bernanke was quizzed about what it felt like to be called a traitor by the governor of Texas. Alan Greenspan was asked if he ...
  America goes to work on its jobsHong Kong Standardall 129 news articles »
  

• Economy adds 41000 jobs in March - CBC.ca

  08-04-2016 15:02 via
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  Economy adds 41000 jobs in March
  CBC.ca
  Canada's economy cranked out an impressive 41,000 jobs last month, more than four times what economists were expecting. Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey showed there were more people employed in Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and ...
  Canada's Economy Generated a Whopping 40600 Jobs in MarchAction Forexall 4 news articles »
  

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• Canada Adds Jobs in March; Jobless Rate Falls - Wall Street Journal

  08-04-2016 14:57 via
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  Canada Adds Jobs in March; Jobless Rate Falls
  Wall Street Journal
  OTTAWA—Canada added jobs for the first time this year in March and the unemployment rate dropped, offering fresh evidence the economy is picking up steam as it deals with the commodity-price rout. Canada added 40,600 jobs last month, Statistics ...
  Canada adds 40600 jobs in MarchToronto Star
  EconomyCanada jobs market bounces back in MarchFinancial Times
  Canada's jobs market surges; unemployment rate
  

• New jobs report shows more growth in Missouri than Kansas - fox4kc.com

  08-04-2016 14:13 via
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  New jobs report shows more growth in Missouri than Kansas
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  KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A new jobs report for Kansas City shows over the past year, businesses on the Missouri side hired a lot more people than businesses on the Kansas side. The report is more bad news for Kansas lawmakers, who four years ago passed ...and more »
  

• Increase in Scots workers getting permanent jobs - Scotsman

  08-04-2016 13:16 via
  Increase in Scots workers getting permanent jobs
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  The number of workers being placed in permanent jobs across Scotland has increased for the fourth month running, according to a new report. The Markit Report on Jobs: Scotland, which surveys around 100 recruitment and employment consultants across ...and more »
  

• 10 jobs with the biggest pay raises - MarketWatch

  08-04-2016 11:00 via
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  10 jobs with the biggest pay raises
  MarketWatch
  While many Americans got a tiny — or no — pay raise this past year, some lucky workers got pay bumps that were triple or more the national average. Even as the job market improves — unemployment is now just 5%, down from a recession-era peak of 10% ...
  

• Editorial: California outlaws more jobs - Las Vegas Review-Journal

  08-04-2016 06:39 via
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  Editorial: California outlaws more jobs
  Las Vegas Review-Journal
  Last week, both houses of California's Legislature rushed to jack up the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next six years. If Golden State lawmakers honestly assessed the ramifications of their decision, however, they would be forced to ...
  The $15 Minimum Wage Will Kill Jobs. Should You Care?Bloombergall 172 news articles »
  

• IMF calls for labour market reform to boost jobs - The Guardian

  08-04-2016 04:28 via
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  IMF calls for labour market reform to boost jobs
  The Guardian
  Christine Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund, which issued its advice in a chapter of the World Economic Outlook before its publication next week. Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty. Larry Elliott Economics editor. Wednesday 6 April 2016 09 ...and more »
  

• H-1B visas quickly snatched up as critics decry lost American jobs, wages - Washington Times

  08-04-2016 04:02 via
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  H-1B visas quickly snatched up as critics decry lost American jobs, wages
  Washington Times
  Sens. Jeff Sessions of Alabama — along with Ted Cruz of Texas — has introduced legislation calling for companies to pay a minimum $110,000 salary for H-1B employees, which they say would help ensure only truly high-skilled employees use the ... more >.and more »
  

• Hundreds to lose jobs at University of Alaska due to budget cuts, president says - KTUU.com

  08-04-2016 04:00 via
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  Hundreds to lose jobs at University of Alaska due to budget cuts, president says
  KTUU.com
  Hundreds of university employees will lose their jobs and dozens of programs will be eliminated due to giant-sized budget cuts looming in Juneau, University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen told reporters on Thursday. At a news conference in Anchorage, ...and more »
  

• Q-C trails other metros in jobs - Quad City Times

  08-04-2016 00:32 via
  Q-C trails other metros in jobs
  Quad City Times
  The Quad-Cities continues to lag most other metro areas across the country in non-farm jobs in the early part of this year, according to a new federal report. The area lost 2,100 jobs between February 2015 and this February, which tied it for ninth ...and more »
  

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