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Poverty growing faster in New Jersey suburbs, including Bergen County, study finds

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Poverty growing faster in New Jersey suburbs, including Bergen County, study finds People are becoming impoverished at a faster rate in areas that used to be considered comfortable suburban enclaves, including large swaths of North Jersey, than they are in cities, according to a study released [...]
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Readers debate Millennial Generation lack of “work ethic”

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Readers debate Millennial Generation lack of “work ethic” May 21,2013 Nobody respects a job, career, or boss anymore or the fact that a business owner took a chance and put his balls and his money on the line to start a company that employs others. Everyone walks around with a sense of entitlement [...]
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Federal government creates more low-wage jobs than Wal-Mart

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Federal government creates more low-wage jobs than Wal-Mart Mark Koba CNBC The federal government is better at creating low-paying jobs than Wal-Mart and McDonald’s combined, according to a new report. A study released earlier this month from the public policy group Demos states that through [...]
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The 10 Worst States to be Unemployed

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The 10 Worst States to be Unemployed By Bloomberg Rankings and Nikhil Hutheesing – May 9, 2013 4:53 PM ET Not All States are Equal Being jobless is always tough. In some states, though, it’s tougher than in others. Many provide barely enough unemployment income to let people scrape by. Where the [...]
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Hertz flees Bergen , 550 from Park Ridge to Florida

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Hertz flees Bergen , 550 from Park Ridge to Florida TUESDAY MAY 7, 2013, 11:51 AM BY  HUGH R. MORLEY STAFF WRITER THE RECORD Hertz will move 550 jobs to Florida from its corporate headquarters in Park Ridge where it has been for 25 years and sell the building, leaving about 150 jobs in the area as [...]
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Obamanomics : Wealth Gap Among Races Has Widened Since Recession

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Obamanomics : Wealth Gap Among Races Has Widened Since Recession By ANNIE LOWREY Published: April 28, 2013 WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans suffered a loss of wealth during the recession and the sluggish recovery that followed. But the last half-decade has proved far worse for black and Hispanic [...]
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Remember the Economy? It’s Still Bad

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Remember the Economy? It’s Still Bad Derrick Morgan April 30, 2013 at 7:09 am According to a poll earlier this year, voters have a higher opinion of cockroaches than Congressmen. President Obama’s personal popularity remains solid, but his job approval rating is going down. Why are our elected [...]
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PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama’s mixed economic record

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PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama’s mixed economic record PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama’s pledges on debt, growth and manufacturing face mixed prospects By Christopher s. Rugaber, AP Economics Writer | Associated Press The issue: The U.S. economy is recovering from the Great Recession but at a modest, uneven [...]
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Roofers union get buyers remorse calls for Obamacare’s repeal

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Roofers union calls for Obamacare’s repeal April 16, 2013 | 5:31 pm | Modified: April 16, 2013 at 6:00 pm The United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers isreportedly the first union to officially call for repeal of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. The health care law is [...]
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Time for New Jersey Politicians and Media to take the current state economic calamity far more serious

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Time for New Jersey Politicians and Media to take the current state economic calamity far more serious April 8,2013 the staff of the Ridgewood blog Ridgewood NJ,  Could there be anymore proof of the continued cluelessness of Trenton politicians and the New Jersey media that covers them ,than the [...]
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Disappearing workers are the hidden jobless

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Disappearing workers are the hidden jobless Saturday April 6, 2013, 11:39 PM BY PAUL WISEMAN AND JESSE WASHINGTON Associated Press WASHINGTON — After a full year of fruitless job hunting, Natasha Baebler just gave up. She’d already abandoned hope of getting work in her field, working with the [...]
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Employment Picture remains weak , with little job growth in March

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Employment Picture remains weak , with little job growth in March April 6th,2013 the staff of the Ridgewood blog Ridgewood NJ, once again the U.S. job-creation was almost non existent in March as employers hired fewer workers than forecast and a shrinking labor force helped push the unemployment [...]
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People Not In Labor Force Soar By 663,000 To 90 Million, Labor Force Participation Rate At 1979 Levels

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People Not In Labor Force Soar By 663,000 To 90 Million, Labor Force Participation Rate At 1979 Levels Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/05/2013 08:58 -0400 BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics Unemployment Things just keep getting worse for the American worker, and by implication US economy, where as we [...]
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Report: N.J. tax breaks $2.5B, yet economy lags

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Report: N.J. tax breaks $2.5B, yet economy lags New Jersey has provided more corporate tax breaks in the past three years than it did in the last 10, but the state’s economy still continues to lag, according to a report released on Monday. The state has awarded $2.1 billion in subsidies — compared [...]
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Generation Mooch? Why 20-somethings have a hard time paying for content

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Generation Mooch? Why 20-somethings have a hard time paying for content By Eliza Kern Mar. 29, 2013 – 8:00 AM EDT I distinctly remember learning how to read, and it wasn’t from a book or in a kindergarten classroom. It was sitting at the breakfast table with my Dad every morning, when we would [...]
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BET Founder: ‘This Country Would Never Tolerate White Unemployment at 14 or 15 Percent’

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BET Founder: ‘This Country Would Never Tolerate White Unemployment at 14 or 15 Percent’ March 29, 2013 By Melanie Hunter (CNSNews.com) – Black Entertainment Television (BET) founder Bob Johnson said Tuesday that the nation would “never tolerate white unemployment at 14 or 15 percent” and yet [...]
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Poverty Hits America’s Suburbs : This is becoming a common story

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Playing the Blues in the suburbs Poverty Hits America’s Suburbs : This is becoming a common story This is becoming a common story. Many people who once held well paying jobs are now in transition or underemployed out of necessity. The unemployment figures are not accurate. There are a lot of [...]
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