May 22, 2013
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2 California cities voters embrace pension cuts
SAN DIEGO — Voters in two major California cities overwhelmingly approved cuts to retirement benefits for city workers in what supporters said was a mandate that may lead to similar ballot initiati...
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Associated Press Leslye Louie (left), an Encore Fellow, meets with her work host, Derek Mitchell, CEO of Partners in School Innovation, in San Francisco in 2010. Louie is now national director of the Encore Fellowships Network, which helps match baby boomers and others looking to change careers with nonprofits.
Boomers’ experience can be asset
Think changing jobs is difficult? It can be even harder if you’re a baby boomer. Although there are federal laws against age discrimination, some employers may be reluctant to hire older work...
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Stocks inch higher as investors await news from Europe
NEW YORK — As world leaders searched for a way out of Europe’s mounting debt crisis, U.S. investors moved to the sidelines. The major market indexes closed modestly higher, after wavering betwee...
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Feeble job growth risks economy
by PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON — The global economy’s foundations are weakening, one by one. Already hobbled by Europe’s debt crisis, the world now risks being hurt by slowdow...
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Three voices on the jobs report and what’s ahead
by MATTHEW CRAFT AP Business Writer NEW YORK — Only a month ago, surprisingly strong corporate earnings and steady growth in the U.S. economy had investors in a cheery mood. The Dow Jones ind...
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Contributed by Swift & Staley Mechanical Contractors Chris Moore, a janitor for Swift & Staley Mechanical Contractors, replaces a paper towel roll in one of the company's break rooms in Kevil. Moore was one of five employees to earn an associate's degree in May through one of the region's several business-friendly college programs that are helping to strengthen the local workforce.
Working smarter
Phillip Easley questioned his resolve to earn a college degree around the time the 47-year-old craftsman was getting up for work at 5 a.m. and not returning home from class until 10 p.m. Easley ...
Jun 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press A woman walks past a shop window with a display in honour of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Thursday in Yarm, England.
Queen’s jubilee a fiesta for area souvenir-sellers
LONDON — What’s red and white and blue all over? In Britain this weekend, everything. As the country celebrates Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years on the throne, retailers are embracing the jubilee s...
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Associated Press A worker walks in front of European-style houses in Hallstatt See, a replica of the Austrian town of Hallstatt, Saturday in Boluo county, Huizhou city, south China's Guangdong province.
Chinese developer unveils replica Austrian village
HUIZHOU, China — A group of Austrians whose scenic mountain village has been copied down to the statues by a Chinese developer attended Saturday’s opening in China for the high-end residential proj...
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Jobs
From May 23 to Wednesday, 25 new job orders were added to the Office of Employment and Training’s database for McCracken County employers. The jobs listed are: part-time teller, branch service l...
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Ireland votes on Europe’s deficit-fighting treaty
DUBLIN — Saying yes could mean dooming Ireland to more long, hard years of austerity. But saying no could mean national bankruptcy next year. Ireland’s debt-burdened voters confronted an existen...
Jun 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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