News tagged with unemployment benefits

When your criminal past isn't yours

(AP) -- A clerical error landed Kathleen Casey on the streets.

Technology / Other

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

TV channel squeeze proposed to pay for tax cuts

(AP) -- Call it the Great Channel Squeeze.

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mortgage modification policies slow employment recovery, economists say

In a new study, UCLA economists estimate that means-tested mortgage modifications, which significantly reduce mortgage payments to households whose incomes have declined, have raised the unemployment rate by approximately ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Claiming benefits improves the health of the unemployed

Unemployment benefits help reduce the negative health-related behaviours often associated with being unemployed. A study published in the open access journal BMC Public Health has found that unemployment benefits recipients are le ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Twitter plays outsize role in 2012 campaign

(AP) -- (at)BarackObama is on Twitter. So is (at)MittRomney. And so are all the voters following the 2012 presidential contest, whether they know it or not.

Technology / Internet

created May 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Positive thinking, persistence pay off in job search: study

(HealthDay) -- A study that followed recently unemployed people for five months -- or until they landed a new job -- found that staying positive and being persistent helped people find work sooner.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Middle class better off than previously thought

Long portrayed as stagnant, the income growth of the U.S. middle class may be more than 10 times greater than previously suggested by some economists, according to a new study at Cornell.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (6) | comments 8

Offshoring jobs might not threaten the national welfare to the degree publicly perceived, says economist

(Phys.org) -- Sending jobs overseas may not be as damaging to the U.S. economy as commonly believed, according to a study by a University at Buffalo economist.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 8

Migrant women adapt in economic crises

With the global recession and the food price spike of 2008, one would expect migrants to be particularly affected, but a recent University of Illinois study revealed migrants in at least one Central Illinois county to be ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study reveals impact of socioeconomic factors on the racial gap in life expectancy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Differences in factors such as income, education and marital status could contribute overwhelmingly to the gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the United States, according ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Disadvantaged left behind in digital age

In a world where access to services is just a click away for many people, the well-off will prosper while the disadvantaged struggle to keep up as the digital divide widens and deepens.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Tax rebates boost bankruptcies and why this isn't a bad thing

Many cash-strapped American families are waiting on their tax rebate to file for bankruptcy, and this trend has gained steam as costs related to filing for bankruptcy have gone up.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Heart of Canada's asbestos country reinvents itself

It's an unlikely match, but a green chemistry institute is thriving in the old headquarters of a Canadian mine in a sign that the former world capital of asbestos is diversifying.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Survey paints a portrait of the UK

A complex and fascinating portrait of a society suffering the effects of the deepest recession since the early 1990s and in which young people appear to have been hardest hit is revealed by new findings from the UK's largest ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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