aggregated from: Slog

AP:Two of Congress's three openly gay members said Saturday that the U.S. House is poised to pass bills to provide health coverage for the same-sex partners of gay federal workers and to protect all gay and transgender employees from job discriminati...

topics: congress, employment

aggregated from: Slog

Wow...NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) The long-suffering U.S. jobs market improved significantly in November, as employers trimmed the fewest jobs of any month since the start of the recession, and the unemployment rate posted the biggest one-month decline...

topics: economy, employment, unemployment

aggregated from: Slog

The Newsosaur worries about a looming, lost generation : Vanishing employment opportunities and shrinking freelance compensation threaten to wipe out a substantial percentage of the next generation of professional journalists. [ Subscribe to...

aggregated from: Discovery Blog

There is much to be grateful for tonight here in Washington. Our senior fellow John Wohlstetter, who is writing on nuclear proliferation, a public policy topic so old it is new again (or going to be), just held an exquisite book party to celebrate hi...

topics: amazon, employment, government, health-care

aggregated from: Biz Buzz

I spoke today with Barbara Thompson, senior vice president for corporate communication at First Citizens Bank of Raleigh, N.C.That's the bank whose name you've been seeing on temporary signs placed over those of the former Venture Bank branches in th...

topics: business, employment

aggregated from: Biz Buzz

Washington's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 9.2 percent in August, up from 8.9 percent in July, according to new figures released by the state Employment Security Department today. The state lost an estimated 8,000 jobs in August,...

topics: business, employment, unemployment

aggregated from: Biz Buzz

The Washington Department of Financial Institutions closed DuPont-based Venture Bank at 6 p.m. today and immediately named the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. as receiver. The FDIC immediately entered into a prearranged purchase and assumption agreem...

topics: employment, investment

aggregated from: Slog

The Art of Manliness has excerpted an anonymous 1937 Esquire essay about how to become a hobo:Also, people in automobiles sometimes become really interested in you and offer you employment. This does not happen too infrequently. I should say that I a...

topics: economy, employment

aggregated from: crosscut.com : Mossback

In the recent debate comparing Vancouver, BC and Seattle, I quoted Peter Steinbrueck as saying that Belltown was the densest neighborhood in the state. A frequent Crosscut commenter attacked that assertion saying that Belltown isn't even the densest ...

topics: auburn, bellevue, employment, kirkland, tacoma

aggregated from: Slog

Tony Manero, which is running at NWFF, is set in 1978 and concerns a 52-year-old Santiago man, Ra l, who is obsessed with... ... Saturday Night Fever: ...a movie that's set in its moment of time, 1977.The main character of Tony Manero, Ra l, sees i...

topics: book, conservative, economy, elected, employment