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Permanent vacation?

While new fulltime jobs are at a virtual standstill, the jobs that are available are more flexible, with more and more people working temporary and contract jobs to make ends meet. But more varied work means it’s harder to take time off.
WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show spoke with Bloomberg BusinessWeek editor Peter Coy about [...]

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“Less bad” or a true sign of recovery?

Jobless rates are still rising, with states like Michigan and California reporting ranks of the unemployed exceeding ten percent for the first time since World War II. So how could things actually be slowly improving?
Looking at the NPR unemployment map, which organizes the May numbers released today state-by-state, the picture doesn’t look good. The [...]

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