AltWeeklies Wire
Job Prospects Looking Up for College Gradsnew
Class of 2012 gets a break.
Creative Loafing (Tampa) |
Michelle Boudin and Joanne Spataro |
05-15-2012 |
Economy
Running the Numbers at the Arkansas Lottery Officenew
The story of Arkansas' lottery has taken some rough turns.
Arkansas Times |
Gerard Matthews |
09-21-2011 |
Economy
Does Your Boss Steal Your Pay?new
As if rising prices and job insecurity weren't enough, many workers are victims of wage theft.
Valley Advocate |
Stephanie Kraft |
07-14-2011 |
Economy
Rooms for Improvementnew
Some Colorado Springs hotel and motel owners say business is better, but still not what it once was.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
09-14-2010 |
Economy
Tags: Economy
Anatomy of a Corporate Layoff
They say getting laid off is better than being "fired for cause." You qualify for unemployment benefits. It looks better to future prospective employers (ha! as though those still existed). Getting laid off isn't personal.
For me, that was the problem.
Tags: Economy
Still the Promised Land: Poverty, Policy and Hope in the Rust Beltnew
Out west in gigantic, thriving Chicago, there’s a debate underway between a journalist and an IT consultant over whether regionalism can help the hollowing-out cities of the Rust Belt.
Montreal Real Estate May have Saved the Lower Main, but Cleopatra Isn’t Feeling Any Lovenew
Did capitalistic excess spare the lower Main? Maybe so. Christian Yaccarini’s Société de développement Angus had big plans to remake St-Laurent between René-Lévesque and de Maisonneuve that are, as of last week, dashed... or at least drastically scaled back.
Montreal Mirror |
Patrick Lejtenyi |
02-26-2010 |
Economy
San Francisco's Employment Rate is Relatively Good, but Leaders Can Create More Jobsnew
Last month, Mayor Gavin Newsom held a press conference at the upscale hot-dog restaurant Show Dogs, packed it with press and midlevel bureaucrats, showed up late, and then led an endless platitude-fest about his plans to promote jobs in San Francisco.
Rural People Once Watched the Weather; Now They Track the Price of Oilnew
Rural America's deep disaffection is in some ways more terrible than the pain of the inner city -- because urbanites never harbored any illusions about the Republicans' deceptive rhetoric.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Bruce Schimmel |
04-29-2008 |
Economy
Party Like It's 1929
The "structural recession" was declared in 1992. It's here now.
Bubble Trouble
The mortgage crisis is bringing America's faith-based economy closer to judgment day.
The Inlander |
Ted S. McGregor Jr. |
08-10-2007 |
Economy
Out of Energy?
Fuel alternatives abound, but the federal government isn't about to fund them.
Busted in Boomtownnew
Once a desperately poor region populated by hardscrabble mountain-dwellers, Northwest Arkansas is now one of the fastest-growing areas in the country, fueled by a hub of home-grown Fortune 500 companies.
Arkansas Times |
Warwick Sabin |
08-04-2005 |
Economy
