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AP IMPACT: Recession, tech kill middle-class jobs

Source: KMOV, Jan 23 2013, 1:02pm CST

NEW YORK (AP) — Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over. And the situation is even worse than ...

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14 hours ago

Rosy China growth forecasts fade on further signs of slowdown

Source: Reuters Mobile  |   May 24 2013, 3:55am CDT

A newly built residential compound is seen from the demolition site of an old village on the outskirts of Beijing May 23, 2013. BEIJING (Reuters) - As evidence mounts that China's economy is losing momentum, economist ...

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22 hours ago

New concerns for China's rising middle class

Source: Middle East North Africa Financial Network  |   May 23 2013, 8:20pm CDT

(MENAFN - AFP) With two cars, foreign holidays and a cook for their apartment, one Beijing family epitomises the new middle class created by China's decades of rapid economic growth -- and its resulting worries. Li N ...

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17 weeks ago


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"Your tablet (computer) is just two or three years ago, and it's already taken over our lives."


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22 hours ago

Jobs, housing data show economy has some muscle

Source: Reuters Mobile  |   May 23 2013, 7:49pm CDT

Hundreds of job seekers wait in line with their resumes to talk to recruiters (R) at the Colorado Hospital Association health care career fair in Denver April 9, 2013. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of American ...

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1 day ago

Why AI will reduce knowledge worker jobs sooner than you think

Source: Hacker News  |   May 23 2013, 10:35am CDT

IN HIS first novel, “Player Piano” (1952), Kurt Vonnegut foresaw that industry might one day resemble a “stupendous Rube Goldberg machine” (or as Brits would say, a Heath Robinson contraption). His story describes a dystopia in which ...

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1 day ago

Workers stage labor strike for wage increase in Yangon

Source: SINA English  |   May 23 2013, 6:07am CDT

YANGON, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Workers from 41 factories in Yangon' s Hlaing Tharyar Industrial Zone-3 have staged labor strike, demanding for wage increase, local daily reported Thursday. The striking workers demanded raising basic monthly ...

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1 day ago

How Bangladesh Garment Industry Traded Workplace Safety For Jobs

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 23 2013, 6:04am CDT

Like millions of other young women in Bangladesh, Sumi Abedin forged her place in the modern economy at a sewing machine inside an urban garment factory. The ready-made garment industry now accounts for a whopping ...

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1 day ago

Will Chinese “Recession” Join Europe’s Contraction?

Source: 24x7 Wall St.  |   May 23 2013, 5:26am CDT

Manufacturing in China contracted this month, according to the HSBC Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), a preliminary reading of manufacturing activity. The figure came in at 49.6. Any number below 50 means activity is shrinking. At about the same time, re ...

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1 day ago

Seeking Help — For China’s Labor Market

Source: Wall Street Journal  |   May 23 2013, 3:49am CDT

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A laborer working in a textile factory in Huaibei, China’s central Anhui province. China’s labor markets are flashing a warning sign, with new job adverts on a leading recru ...

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1 day ago

Economists Better times ahead for New Hampshire

Source: The Union Leader  |   May 22 2013, 11:03pm CDT

After five years marked by recession or nominal growth, the New Hampshire economy is poised for better times, according to a panel of economists scheduled to present their five-year forecast for New England ...

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