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Southern accents could cost job seekers a 20% wage penalty, study finds
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Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job
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Tech Companies Are Ruining Their Apps, Websites, Internet
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Students of BloomTech, FKA Lambda School, file class-action lawsuit
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Can the West’s perplexing employment miracle continue?
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'Nobody Wants to Work Anymore' Meme Cites Real Newspaper Articles
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Number of unemployed persons per job opening
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Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling to find workers
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A nationwide shortage of public workers
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Even your boss wants to quit
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The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021)
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There Is a Much Larger Problem Than the Great Resignation
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America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cash to the rich
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More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years
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A record 4.5M workers quit their jobs in November
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Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)
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Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground
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The U.S. productivity slowdown: an economy-wide and industry-level analysis
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Workers quit jobs in droves to become their own bosses
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Young people are leaving their jobs in record numbers and not going back
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Half a million South Korean workers walk off jobs in general strike
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New wave of strikes will test worker power
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Job vacancies surge past one million in new record
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Rolling Stone 'Horse Dewormer' Hit-Piece Debunked After Hospital Says No ODs
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Job-hopping heats up: 65% of U.S. workers are looking for a new job
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Will the rich world’s worker deficit last?
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The 'Great Resignation' is really the 'Great Discontent'
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“Great resignation” wave coming for companies
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Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead
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Why are American workers becoming harder to find?
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Forced Entrepreneurs
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It’s not a ‘labor shortage,’ it’s a reassessment of work
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Bosses Are Clueless That Workers Are Miserable and Looking to Leave
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Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising
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Scammers siphoned $36B in fraudulent unemployment payments from US
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Nearly 8M Americans have fallen into poverty since summer
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Almost 60 percent of business closures are now permanent, new Yelp data shows
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1 in 4 Americans are jobless or earning poverty-level wages, new study finds
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America's True Unemployment Rate
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U.S. faculty job market tanks
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Most Americans don’t have enough assets to withstand 3 months without income
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U.S. Ranked Worst for Workers’ Rights Among Major Economies
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Never Have I Seen So Much Fake Unemployment and Jobs Data by the Bureau of Labor
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Hazard pay in focus as essential workers earn less than the jobless
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The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen from 61 to 51
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Canada extends financial aid for millions for two more months
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US schools lay off hundreds of thousands
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April Unemployment Rate Rose to a Record 14.7%
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BLS Reports 14.7% Unemployment Rate
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Millions of Americans can't afford food, rent and other basics, report finds
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71 Percent of jobless Americans did not recieve their March unemployment benefit
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Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies
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Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf]
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Back-of-the-envelope estimates of next quarter’s unemployment rate
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3.28M file for U.S. jobless benefits
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UK government to pay up to 80% of wages for employees not working
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Coronavirus: 18% of U.S. workers have lost jobs or hours, poll finds
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U.S. Labor Department allows unemployment benefits for coronavirus
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U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years
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Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force
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The IT revolution and southern Europe's two lost decades
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Americans' fear of losing their jobs grows
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AT&T promised 7k new jobs to get tax break, cut 23k jobs instead
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People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco
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The U.S. just had the most Q1 layoffs in a decade
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I Win My European Unemployment Bet
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Over half of older US workers are pushed out of longtime jobs before they retire
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Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record
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Companies struggling to fill jobs 'should try paying more,' Fed's Kashkari says
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U.S. Freelance Workforce, Now 56.7M People, Grew 3.7M Since 2014
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Millions of educated, experienced workers are tossed aside by a strong economy
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Say Hello to Full Employment
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Job-hopping increases, in possible boon to wage growth and productivity
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U.S. employment conditions compare poorly to the rest of the developed world
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Southern Europe Has Not Seen Net Job Creation in over a Decade
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Why 3.5M Americans in their prime years aren’t working
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As labor pool shrinks, prison time is less of a hiring hurdle
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U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs
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San Jose and Oakland area job markets tumble
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The line is blurring between city and suburb
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The New Face of American Unemployment
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American Firms Want to Keep Older Workers a Bit Longer
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Freelancers Now Make Up 35% of U.S. Workforce
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Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed
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There are now more Americans working for online-only outlets than newspapers
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Why Is Productivity So Weak? Three Theories
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The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade for young people
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Hacked Raspberry Pi turned into artificial pancreas
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Scientists skeptical about Theranos blood test
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US Has More Solar Workers Than Coal Miners
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The Real Truth About the STEM Shortage
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The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment
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U.S Unemployment By Education Level
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Dissent Is Dead At Facebook, Employees Complain
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How are startups shaped by macro conditions at birth?
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Union households tend to have $100k more in wealth than nonunion families
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To make a fortune, target bored young men who want to make a fortune
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The fishy death of Red Lobster
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The European Union's remarkable growth performance relative to the United States
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Everyone Hates Workday
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IKEA's retailer's solved global 'unhappy worker' crisis by raising salaries
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Workers are stuck in place because everyone is too afraid of a recession to quit
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