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Wethersfield School Board Eliminates Security Director Position
The Hartford CourantThe board of education eliminated plans to hire a director of security and residency Wednesday evening as part of $325,000 in budget cuts ordered by the town council. The district had wanted to create the $65,000-a-year job in response to last December's...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Budgets and Budgeting, Wethersfield, Career and Workplace
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Florida pays off federal loan for jobless benefits
Florida officials this week finished paying back about $3.5 billion the state had borrowed from the federal government to make unemployment payments during the worst of the recession. It was one of 36 states forced to borrow the money from the feds to...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Unemployment Benefits, Rick Scott
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Hartford Mayor Rejects Council's Budget Cuts
The Hartford CourantMayor Pedro Segarra on Thursday rejected more than half the cuts made to his proposed $543.9 million budget by the city council, opting for an additional $3.9 million in reductions instead of the $8.6 million approved by the council. Segarra vetoed a...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Career and Workplace, Layoffs and Downsizing, Pedro E. Segarra, Government Debt
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US unemployment aid applications drop 23,000 to 340,000, a sign of improvement in job market
AP Economics WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell 23,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 340,000, a level consistent with solid job growth. The less volatile four-week average ticked down just 500 to 339,500,...Tags: Labor Markets, Career and Workplace, Unemployment Rate, Layoffs and Downsizing, Money and Monetary Policy
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Initial jobless claims drop to 340,000 after one-week spike
WASHINGTON -- Initial unemployment claims dropped back to a level indicating moderate job growth last week after a spike the previous week raised alarms about the labor market recovery. The number of people filing for unemployment benefits for the first...
Tags: New Products, Labor Markets, Career and Workplace, Unemployment Rate, Verizon Communications
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Fed's mixed messages roil markets
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve's unprecedented stimulus efforts are starting to box in the nation's central banker. Its bond purchases have helped fuel economic growth since the financial crisis. But Fed policymakers now must figure out how...
Tags: Labor Markets, Career and Workplace, Money and Monetary Policy, Stock Market, Financial Markets
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State to finally replace ancient jobless-claims computer
In good news for the jobless and employers alike, the state's 1970s-era computer that processes unemployment claims is finally getting replaced. The new system is coming this fall, five years after the computer almost ground to a halt. The $63 million...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, U.S. Congress, Employment, Employment Opportunities
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ESPN Laying Off Employees; Reports Say At Least 100 In Bristol
The Hartford CourantESPN is laying off employees in Bristol and elsewhere in a cost-saving move that is eliminate hundreds of jobs, according to multiple sources, although the company did not report the size of the cutback. Layoffs mostly happened Tuesday but were...Tags: Labor Markets, The Walt Disney Co., Career and Workplace, ESPN (tv network), Layoffs and Downsizing
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ESPN reducing workforce, 'smartly managing costs' amid other cuts at Disney divisions
AP Sports WriterNEW YORK (AP) — ESPN is cutting its workforce, the latest Disney division to reduce staff. "We are implementing changes across the company to enhance our continued growth while smartly managing costs," the sports media giant said in a statement...Tags: Bowl Championship Series, The Walt Disney Co., Career and Workplace, Earnings Forecasts, Earnings
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KidsPeace files for bankruptcy
Carrying $240 million in debt, Orefield-based KidsPeace filed for bankruptcy Tuesday. The move comes after years of struggles in which the organization that gives treatment to troubled and autistic children laid off workers and missed debt payments....
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Orefield, Lehigh County, Career and Workplace, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Incumbents fall; Vulcano defeated, Moskaitis behind
The last of the old guard is gone. In Region II, Pat Vulcano Jr., Easton Area School District's longest tenured board member, fell to a pair of newcomers on both tickets in Tuesday's primary. Vulcano, a 12-year board member, finished third on both the...Tags: Career and Workplace, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Elections, Politics, Parties and Movements
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Long-Term Unemployed Will Have Checks Sliced By Almost 20 Percent
The Hartford CourantBy the end of the month, more than 30,000 people who are collecting Connecticut unemployment benefits will have their weekly checks cut by nearly 20 percent. Only people who have been collecting for more than 26 weeks will face the cuts, because weeks 27...Tags: Career and Workplace, Air Transportation Industry, Unemployment Benefits, Sharon, Dannel P. Malloy
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