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Brad Sell and Meg Harsh: SCIP focus group sets its sights on economic growth
The United Way and Community Foundation of Washington County are writing monthly columns in The Herald-Mail to keep the Strategic Community Impact Plan (SCIP) process in the forefront of the community’s conscience and to report on the progress...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Marketing, Small Businesses, Business, PNC Financial Services Group Incorporated
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Pressure on the picket line
Almost every day for nearly three weeks, Jon Butler rallied with fellow union strikers on the picket line.
Butler was among roughly 800 union members who walked out of the Caterpillar Inc. plant in Joliet on May 1, rejecting a proposed six-year...Tags: Strikes, College Sports, Health, Caterpillar Inc., Occupy Wall Street
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'Manufacturing' is not a dirty word
During the last two decades manufacturing became almost a dirty word among some, who associated the industry with offshore jobs, massive layoffs and lost revenue. As a result, bright young people were discouraged from pursuing a career in manufacturing....Tags: Productivity, Career and Workplace, Colleges and Universities, Georgetown University, Technology
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South Florida helping state's economic recovery, economist says
Florida's economy has gained momentum in the past year, with Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties helping the state on its slow trek to recovering from the devastating Great Recession, according to an analysis released Friday by the Wells Fargo...Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Homes, Career and Workplace, University of Central Florida, Palm Beach County
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Candidates For 32nd District House Seat Endorsed By Their Parties
The Hartford CourantPortland school board Chairman Christopher Phelps will challenge incumbent Christie Carpino, R-Cromwell, for the 32nd General Assembly District in the Nov. 6 election. A Cromwell resident and mother of two young children, Carpino is seeking her second...Tags: Middletown, Elections, Parenting, Health, Politics
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Unemployment rate is a numbers game in presidential race
It was kind of a buzz-kill moment. Earlier this month, at a town hall meeting in Township, Pa., Mitt Romney mentioned that the jobless rate had dropped a bit, from 8.2% to 8.1%. The audience started to applaud, but Romney stopped them. "Normally,...
Tags: Employment, Career and Workplace, Employment Opportunities, Labor Legislation, Unemployment
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Pratt & Whitney Picks Middletown For Key Engine Work
The Hartford CourantPratt & Whitney has decided to assemble some, and maybe the majority, of its engines for the Airbus A320 neo model — the largest booking of business by far for its new geared turbofan design — at its Middletown plant, an unexpected decision...Tags: Cheshire, Career and Workplace, Aerospace Manufacturing, Economy, Business and Finance, Middletown
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California gasoline use rose for first time in a year in February
For the first time in a year, Californians consumed more gasoline in a month than they had during the same period a year earlier, according to the State's Board of Equalization. It happened in February, which is the Equalization Board's most recent...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Gasoline Industry, Unemployment Benefits
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Regional jobless rates in Michigan see big drop
LANSING - Michigan reports that the seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate dropped a full percentage point statewide and fell in all major labor markets. The April figures released Thursday show joblessness statewide at 8 percent, compared with 9...Tags: Employment, Career and Workplace, Employment Opportunities, Unemployment
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Michigan Sees Jobless Rates Fall Around State
FOX 17 Morning ReporterMichigan has experienced some rough times in the job market, but a new report reveals just about every region in the state seeing increased job growth. The Department of Technology, Management and Budget released a breakdown of the state's 17 major...Tags: Employment, Career and Workplace, Employment Opportunities, Netherlands, Unemployment
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Obama urges Congress to extend clean-energy tax credits
NEWTON, Iowa — From a wind-power factory in this battleground state, President Obama urged Congress to extend tax credits he said would save jobs in the field of clean-energy production.
Obama said continuing the production tax credit would save...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Renewable Energy, Credit and Debt, Energy, Environmental Issues
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Curt Schilling shutters his game studios, lays off entire staff
Just three months after shipping his first game, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling has reportedly laid off the entire staff of his two development studios, Big Huge Games and 38 Studios, and shut down the...
Tags: Boston Red Sox, Sports, Electronic Arts Inc., The New York Times, Curt Schilling
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