Economy – Page 21 – Impact Lab

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‘The start-up of you’ – Reinventing yourself in the ever changing job market

July 15, 2011

Employers are looking for people who can invent, adapt and reinvent their jobs every day, in a market that changes faster than ever.

The rise in the unemployment rate last month to 9.2 percent has Democrats and Republicans reliably falling back on their respective cure-alls. It is evidence for liberals that we need more stimulus and for conservatives that we need more tax cuts to increase demand. I am sure there is truth in both, but I do not believe they are the whole story. I think something else, something new — something that will require our kids not so much to find their next job as to invent their next job — is also influencing today’s job market more than people realize.

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Analysis, Big Problems, Economy, government, Money Talk

Extended unemployment benefits are set to expire in 2012, will this be the next big hit to the economy?

July 11, 2011

The total impact of the extended unemployment benefits on the economy is huge, because so many Americans are currently taking advantage of them.

The economic recovery could be headed for a major hit that will leave it even weaker as extended unemployment benefits are set to expire in 2012.

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend

American cities built for the young strained by aging boomers

July 10, 2011

Atlanta Regional Commission project constructed the new ramp to accomodate the aging population in Atlanta.

People are getting old, fast, and they’re doing it in cities designed for the young. Cities in American are grappling with that fact as work on getting the communities ready for an older population has gotten a late start considering demographers have warned for a long time that the population is about to get older.

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend

The 40-hour work week coming to an end

July 7, 2011

Some workers are being asked to work 50 hours or more, while others face night and weekend hours.

Is the 9-to-5 work week coming to an end? Higher income employees feel the pressure to work 50 or more hours per week while lower income employees are being forced to work less hours.

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10 U.S. cities that will take 10 years to recover from the recession

July 4, 2011

Reno’s economy relies on gaming and tourism, two industries which have been hit extremely hard by the recession.

December 2007 is when the Great Recession officially began and it officially ended in July 2009. But that doesn’t mean the economy has returned to where it was before the steepest downturn since the Great Depression and may not for years. Employment is not expected to return to its pre-recession peak until 2014, according to a recent report by IHS Global Insight.

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Almost half of U.S. workers would scrap summer vacation to save money

July 3, 2011

Thirteen percent of people take vacations knowing they may have to work if necessary.

About 45% of U.S. workers would scrap or scale back their summer vacation plans to save money if the economy remains volatile, according to a survey.

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Globalism, Latest Trend

Micro-jobs and the emerging underground economy

July 2, 2011

Futurist Thomas Frey: As the musical chairs game of unemployment money runs out, and an increasingly large number of people are left without a seat at the jobs table, desperation begins to set in.

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Analysis, Big Problems, Economy

Europe’s ‘black economy’

July 2, 2011

Hundreds of thousands of people in Spain claim unemployment benefit when they actually have some kind of work.

In the Via Barsanti in the town of PratoShi, Italy, Songbin’s existence came to light one morning only when stunned residents found his body outside an underground parking garage surrounded by drab apartment blocks.

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Analysis, Food, Latest Trend

Average consumer in the U.S. drinks 45 gallons of soda a year

June 27, 2011

Soda is the most consumed beverage in the U.S.

With summer in full swing, Americans will be quenching their thirst with a variety of fizzy, sweet and intoxicating beverages with soda being the number one drink consumed.

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Britain cuts housing benefits that will make large areas of London unaffordable for the poor

June 21, 2011

British welfare benefits allow London’s poor to live in areas such as affluent St. John’s Wood.

St. John’s Wood is the place the London A-listers choose to live. It is a neighborhood of the wealthy with its leafy avenues lined with the mansions of Paul McCartney, Ewan McGregor and Kate Moss. And yet, they share the most unlikely neighbors — the Kastrati family.

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Share of national income taken home by workers at a record low

June 15, 2011

Over the last ten years, the share of U.S. national income taken home by workers has plummeted to a record low.

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‘Perfect storm’ could smash the global economy in 2013

June 14, 2011

NYU Professor Nouriel Roubini warns that a “perfect storm” could hit the global economy.

Nouriel Roubini, a Professor at NYU has seized the headlines again this morning. Roubin is warning that a “perfect storm” of economic disasters may clobber the global economy in 2013.

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