Everyday there is news of massive job losses hitting some town or city in America. And everyone knows at least one person who is unemployed--if they're not unemployed themselves. But being unemployed does not need to be an experience in powerlessness. An article in the Dallas Morning News offers some good (and not so good) [...]
Just when we thought things couldn't get worse, according to an article in the Dallas Morning News, the rising job losses nationwide are bringing out a new type of predator, job scammers. The Way Job Scams Work One type of job scam operates by sending emails to unemployed people claiming to have seen their resume [...]
According to article in the Dallas Morning News, commercial real estate landlords are working hard to hold on to tenants as commercial real estate rental rates plunge and vacancies soar. The article said: It's happening across all areas of commercial real estate - from retail and office to warehouse and manufacturing space. Locally based retailers [...]
According to an article in the Dallas Morning News, the Labor Department reported that the number of mass job losses increased by 50 percent in January compared to 2008 numbers. The economy suffered over 235,000 job losses last month as employers shed jobs in an effort to stay in the black. Home Depot Inc., Boeing [...]
According to an article in the Dallas Morning News, Nortel Networks Corp. announced that it is implementing an additional 3,200 job losses as it attempts to slash costs and emerge from bankruptcy profitable. The new job losses are in addition to 1,800 job losses it announced earlier this year. Nortel has been in bankruptcy since [...]
According to an article in the Star-Telegram, the number of jobless workers filing for unemployment has jumped to 667,000 unemployed workers from 631,000 last week. The number of job losses has put a total of 5.1 million unemployed workers onto unemployment insurance not counting those who received benefits extensions. Experts had expected unemployment claims to [...]
According to an article in the Dallas Morning News, manufacturing activity in Texas has declined significantly, signaling a bleak outlook for jobs and businesses. The article said: "Texas manufacturing activity continued to deteriorate in February, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey," the Dallas Fed said in a Monday report. "All [...]
According to an article in the Star-Telegram, the number of jobless workers claiming unemployment reached an all-time high of nearly 5 million. The article said: The Labor Department reported Thursday that the number of people receiving regular unemployment benefits rose 170,000 to 4.99 million for the week ending Feb. 7, marking the fourth straight week [...]
According to an article in the Star-Telegram, the $787 billion stimulus plan promises to save or create 3.5 million jobs nationwide. Many of those jobs approximately 269,000 could go to Texas. But will it be a long-term fix? Can it offset the large number of job losses that are predicted this year? Many experts think [...]
According to an article in the Star-Telegram, the job losses being suffered in the current downturn is beginning to ravage white-collar, highly-paid educated workers. The article said: After ravaging blue-collar and lower-paid workers in the construction, manufacturing and retail sectors, job losses from the "Great Recession" are moving their way up the income ladder into [...]