“As Corporate America prepares for a possible recession in 2023, companies big and small are axing thousands of positions amid the holidays,” Taylor Telford reports.
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“As Corporate America prepares for a possible recession in 2023, companies big and small are axing thousands of positions amid the holidays,” Taylor Telford reports.
Launch“Many lawmakers and advocates for the poor say filing a tax return shouldn’t be necessary for people on Social Security since the government already knows how to send this population monthly checks. The $2.2 trillion aid package said that if someone has not filed a 2019 or 2018 tax return, the U.S. Treasury should get their information from Social Security, if applicable,” The Washington Post reports.
Launch“The need for a Green New Deal can rendezvous with the imperative of anti-depression public investment. Much of this sweeping proposal is on the drawing boards and has not been done for lack of funding. Some of it will take some advance planning. The time to start is now.”
LaunchJobs are now being lost as a consequence of Senate Republicans’ refusal to bring the capital budget up for a vote back in July. KING5’s Heather Graf has more.
Launch“The changes are coming at Boeing’s Shared Services Group (SSG), which employs about 3,000 people in the Puget Sound region and provides a wide range of support services to Boeing’s corporate and production units.”
LaunchEmployers like to use free-form, unstructured interviews in an attempt to “get to know” a job candidate. Such interviews are also increasingly popular with admissions
LaunchTrump has endangered the jobs of workers who were previously safe in the United States. Why? Because he has signaled to every corporation in America
LaunchThis Republican mayor has an incredibly simple idea to help the homeless. And it seems to be working. The Washington Post’s Colby Itkowitz explains how
LaunchMr. Bush, in particular, may pose as a reasonable, thoughtful type — credulous reporters even describe him as a policy wonk — but his actual
LaunchActivist registers CarlyFiorina.org, posts thirty-thousand frowny faces to represent workers she laid off Now this is brilliant: An unnamed activist managed to get his or
LaunchOur Republican Leader in the Senate, as he was coming in, after having tried to block every single thing that we have done to strengthen
LaunchBoeing’s marketing department is at it again. We couldn’t help but notice that this week’s edition of the Redmond Reporter contains a full-page color ad,
LaunchInsecurity is now baked into every aspect of the employment relationship. Workers can be fired for any reason, or no reason. And benefits are disappearing.
LaunchTwo of the biggest accomplishments of Obama’s first term were health reform and the stimulus (which was too small but certainly better than nothing). Neither
LaunchThe utter humiliation of laying everyone off and telling them they are welcome to reapply for their existing jobs in a new location has struck
LaunchPubic television’s Bill Moyers talks with Jacob Kornbluth, director of Inequality for All, about the widening disparity between the super wealthy and everyone else.
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