Tag: work
member name: Michael Caputo
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August 28, 2009 04:54 PM EDT --
We told you last week about the .3 percent decrease in Minnesota’s unemployment numbers. That's the good news.
But check this out: The number of job vacancies decreased by 40 percent from the . . .
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January 19, 2008 04:30 PM EST --
President Bush and our Washington leaders are setting down a plan to "stimulate the economy." Perhaps it's more like that moment when the ship with a leak starts listing and you grab the . . .
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July 02, 2008 10:55 PM EDT --
Man, has the phrase "there are no guarantees" ever been more true?
Each day comes a new story about jobs that are going away - and that our comfortable lives are in a bit more in peril. From . . .
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July 03, 2008 10:13 PM EDT --
It was a gift... unexpected... and unaware you needed it until it was there.
The best kind of gift.
Lunchtime in downtown StP. The tension of a work morning at a terminal . . .
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August 20, 2009 11:59 AM EDT --
In just nine months, Amanda Halbersma, a Public Insight Network source, went from buying a foreclosed home to worrying about the possibility of foreclosure with that very same house.
Several years . . .
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August 25, 2009 04:13 PM EDT --
Numbers this month show that the U.S. economy is more productive. But what’s the toll of that productivity?
Stephanie Massey of Mound has some idea. Her husband, who works for a large financial . . .
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August 26, 2009 10:41 AM EDT --
Much remains unknown about the performance of the so-called American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly referred to as the federal stimulus effort.
So when Rep. Betty McCollum held a hearing . . .
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May 18, 2009 02:03 PM EDT --
A few weeks ago, Karin Patrick, a source in our Public Insight Network, warned that people who don’t apply for unemployment benefits when their hours are cut stand to lose when they are laid off. . . .
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September 11, 2007 10:48 AM EDT --
You hit 60 years old, you're supposed to be thinking about retirement. Fishing. Bouncing the grandkids on your knee. That kind of thing.
But recent U.S. Census data indicates that many more of those . . .
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January 17, 2008 09:31 PM EST --
At Minnesota Public Radio we had a forum discussion on the environment (there will be more about this later). But even in this context, it was amazing how the economic slide made its way into the conversation. . . .
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June 25, 2008 06:31 PM EDT --
The conventional story when it comes to gas prices and the vacation season goes like this:
1) The vacationer decides to curtail their plans.
2) The resort/hospitality person frets about reduced . . .
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April 03, 2009 11:45 AM EDT --
The unemployment rate in Minnesota has topped 8 percent. But it's twice that percentage for people who have disabilities.
Minnesota Public Radio reporter Nikki Tundel gives a very human look at . . .
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August 19, 2009 11:43 AM EDT --
A post from MPR Public Insight Editor Andrew Haeg on the consequences of easy credit.
On Thursday, Congress will enact new legislation that protects consumers from a range of common lending . . .
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May 20, 2009 11:41 AM EDT --
North Memorial Health Care in Robbinsdale announced that it will either cut the hours or the positions of 170 people. The news comes a few weeks after Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) and Park . . .
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August 27, 2009 02:10 PM EDT --
States set their own unemployment benefit rate, and Minnesota's has been among the most generous.
The maximum weekly benefit you can get in the Gopher State is $566. That's fifth in the nation, . . .
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August 20, 2009 06:12 PM EDT --
Public Insight Editor Andrew Haeg posts on the new jobless numbers and how one man is navigating his unemployment.
The news on the state’s unemployment front today was . . .
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August 26, 2009 06:19 PM EDT --
Public Insight Editor Andrew Haeg has a new post that explores unemployment for older workers.
Unemployment has afflicted younger workers more than any other cohort.
If you leave . . .
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August 18, 2009 09:57 AM EDT --
Public Insight Analyst Paul Tosto may be away for a few weeks, but he's still on the job. He posted on layoffs at a Fridley military contractor.
Layoffs became official Monday at the BAE Systems . . .
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August 21, 2009 06:28 PM EDT --
Public Insight Editor Andrew Haeg posts on a story missed as the media focused on Favre.
Minnesota was visited by two ineluctable forces on Wednesday: tornadoes and Favre . . .
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August 25, 2009 09:29 AM EDT --
Public Insight Editor Andrew Haeg files a post on the trip that has been this summer vacation season.
Just like everyone, we here at MinnEcon are loathe to admit that . . .
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