By Vicki Needham The White House is turbo-charging programs to help veterans find work while leaning on the Senate to this week pass a package of tax incentives for businesses that hire unemployed veterans. The Senate is expected to consider a measure this week that would provide tax breaks President Obama will announce at noon [...]
By Patrick Rizzo Snail mail is about to get even slower. The U.S. Postal Service, burdened with huge financial losses, said Thursday that it was facing a “new reality” that would include shutting a slew of processing facilities, changing service standards for first-class mail and cutting up to 35,000 positions.The moves will mean first-class [...]
By LEO SHANE III WASHINGTON — The ambitious jobs plan outlined by the president Thursday night may be a tough sell in Congress, but lawmakers appear on the verge of advancing at least one piece of unemployment legislation in the near future: A new veterans jobs bill. Just hours before the speech, members of the [...]
President urges $450 billion jobs proposal to ‘jolt’ economy in national address By Alex Johnson Calling it an “urgent time for our country,” President Barack Obama asked Congress on Thursday night to “stop the political circus” and approve a nearly half-trillion-dollar plan to help the economy by cutting payroll taxes, raising taxes on the [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will lay out a jobs package worth more than $300 billion on Thursday, staking his re-election hopes on a call for urgent bipartisan action to revive the faltering economy. With his poll numbers sliding to new lows amid voter frustration with 9.1 percent unemployment, Obama will make tax cuts for middle-class households [...]
By Autumn Perry FLINT (WJRT) Hundreds of local Red Cross workers could soon be on the picket line. Unions representing those workers issued a strike notice. The Great Lakes Region of the Red Cross, representing all of Mid-Michigan received the notice Friday. The deadline for the strike is September 7th, a week from Wednesday. “The [...]
by Lucia Mutikani (Reuters) – Hiring by small businesses slowed in August and employers reduced hours, an independent survey showed on Sunday, suggesting the recent stock market turmoil may have dampened job creation. Intuit, a payrolls processing company, said small businesses added 35,000 jobs after increasing employment by 40,000 in July. The survey is based [...]
One of the fiercest debates in the budget and deficit controversy involves the extent to which tax exemptions for private business are tied to job creation. The answer is an unequivocal yes in some cases, such as a high-profile example close to home: the successful recruitment of Kia Motors to West Point. The “greater good” [...]
Hire Heroes USA’s (HHUSA) mission is to offer transition assistance, job search assistance, and job placement services to those who have honorably served in the US military – and to their spouses – in order to reduce veteran unemployment. HHUSA prioritizes veterans statistically most likely to be unemployed: veterans of Operations IRAQI FREEDOM and ENDURING [...]
Farmers Insurance is reaching out to US Military Veterans and is offering you the opportunity to become your own boss. They have teamed with the nations largest military job board, HireVeterans.com to offer this life changing opportunity to you.
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