Fuel prices hurting but not breaking local shipping (Elk Grove Times)
With much of its business centered in transportation, Elk Grove Village officials and workers said high gas prices are hurting but not breaking the local shipping economy. |
Newarkers struggle as their income slips (The Star-Ledger)
Belinda Scott works a full-time and a part-time job at two Newark social service agencies to support her two teenage children, but she still makes less than $40,000 a year, with no health insurance. |
Local jobless rate unchanged (Lancaster Online)
Souring economic conditions continued to erase jobs across the state and the country in July, but the unemployment rate in Lancaster County remained stable at 4.1 percent.The Lancaster metropolitan area ranked second among 14 statistical areas tracked by the the state Department of Labor &... |
Region’s jobless rate hits 6.1% (Times Leader)
The closing of schools for the summer boosted the region’s unemployment rate to 6.1 percent in July, according to data released today by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. |
Parish workers earn lowest average salary in region (St. Tammany News)
From the half million dollar lake front homes to the shiny Mercedes and BMWs zipping through St. Tammany Parish, one thing is clear — pockets of the area’s population are among the wealthiest statewide. |
Wealth of jobs helps keep Q-C unemployment on track (Quad-City Times)
Diversification of jobs is helping the Quad-Cities stay somewhat stable in terms of employment, according to a labor study released Thursday. |
Kentucky's jobless rate increases to 6.7 percent in July (News Democrat & Leader)
Kentucky's seasonally adjusted preliminary unemployment rate for July 2008 rose to 6.7 percent from June 2008's revised 6.3 percent, according to the Office of Employment and Training (OET), an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet. |
Local unemployment up (The Galesburg Register-Mail)
July unemployment rates increased in all 12 of the state’s metropolitan areas compared to the same time last year, according to figures released Thursday by the Illinois Department of Employment Security. |
Warehouse business busy in old AutoLign factory (The Milan News-Leader)
Debbie Carpenter lost her job when AutoLign Manufacturing of Milan went out of business in April 2007 The following month, she went back to school to study administration and technology, earning three certificates and numerous credits toward a bachelor's degree. |
LCCC sharing 3-year work-force grant (The Morning Call)
Lehigh Carbon Community College and Luzerne County Community College will be partners for a three-year, $1.7 million grant to strengthen work-force skills. |
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