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Home prices improving, but inventory is low
Home values are becoming as firm as a holiday fruitcake in and around Pasadena, but there still aren’t enough properties on the market to satisfy would-be buyers. The average price of a home sold in October 2012 in Pasadena, La Caņada Flintridge,...
Tags: Homes, Marketing, Petroleum Industry, San Marino, Credit Ratings
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The spending has to stop
California must change course. In a recent survey of American chief executives, California ranked 50th in providing a business-friendly environment. Their finding: over-taxation and burdensome regulation, evidenced by the double-digit unemployment rate...Tags: Health, Business, California State Legislature, Mike Gatto, Health and Safety at School
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Schools Brief
Board endorses medical training bill The La Caņada Unified school board on Tuesday adopted a resolution in support of state Senate Bill 1051 which authorizes emergency medical training for district employees that would enable them to assist an epileptic...Tags: Employees, Health, Career and Workplace, Health and Medical Professionals, Disasters and Accidents
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Woman takes multiple roads to success
arnoldp@herald-mail.comUnlike many Americans, Ruby Harley didn’t lose work during the recession. In fact, the Inwood, W.Va., woman gained work — holding two jobs at the same time before the recession, three jobs simultaneously during the recession and two jobs now....Tags: The Herald-Mail, Unemployment Rate, Career and Workplace, Nursing Homes, Loudoun County
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Some recession victims feel lucky to be working harder
arnoldp@herald-mail.comOne thing Ed Grimes hates about his current work schedule is trying to explain it to others. “It’s confusing,” he said. Since being laid off in 2009 after nearly four decades at Hagerstown’s Noland Company, the 61-year-old...Tags: Armed Forces, Employment, Finance, Career and Workplace, Bankruptcy
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Unemployment continues to fall as consumer confidence rebounds
A surging stock market and rebounding housing prices are translating into a robust job market in South Florida. South Florida's unemployment continued its decline in April, dropping a notch to 5.6 percent in Broward and 6.8 percent in Palm Beach County,...Tags: Employment, Unemployment Rate, Government, Career and Workplace, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida)
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Buyers feeling more confident
MarketWatchWASHINGTON -- Consumer sentiment perked up in May to its highest level in more than six years, according to a survey released Friday, helped by falling gasoline prices, a rising stock market and firmer housing prices. The preliminary May reading of the...Tags: Consumers, Market and Exchange, Stock Market, Economy, Business and Finance, Consumer Confidence
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Caroline Baum: Federal Reserve handicaps race of its own making
Ed Koch, the late mayor of New York City, used to stop residents on the street and ask, "How am I doing?" With next month marking the four-year anniversary of the end of the 2007-2009 recession, the longest and deepest since the Great Depression, it...Tags: Dow Jones Industrial Average, Ben Bernanke, New York City, Freedom of Information Act, Money and Monetary Policy
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What we think: Florida pays price for Scott's anti-tax zealotry
In recent years, state and local governments in Florida have lost billions of dollars in unpaid sales taxes — dollars that might have been invested in priorities like schools, health care and public safety, or allowed other taxes to be reduced....Tags: Regional Authority, Rick Scott, Elections, Government, Executive Branch
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Md. sheds 6,200 jobs in April, Labor Department says
Maryland employers slashed 6,200 jobs in April, cutting short a string of gains, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday, as the state began feeling the pinch of federal budget sequestration and cutbacks in consumer spending. But the government's...Tags: Employment, Finance, Unemployment Rate, Career and Workplace, Moody's Corporation
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California jobless rate falls to 9%
No one ever said the economic recovery would be pretty. California eked out more growth in April as employers added 10,400 jobs, bringing the net total added over the year to 273,000. The state's unemployment rate dropped to 9% from 9.4% the month...
Tags: Consumers, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Employment, Career and Workplace, Unemployment Benefits
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Florida jobless rate dips to 7.2 percent in April
Florida's unemployment rate continues to fall, dipping from 7.5 percent in March to 7.2 percent in April — the lowest level in five years. Metro Orlando's jobless rate also improved, falling to 6.4 percent, down three-tenths of a percentage...
Tags: Polk County, Orlando, Employment, Government, Career and Workplace
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