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Americans Turn to Career Sites During Economic Downturn
added: 02-08-2009

comScore, Inc. released a June 2009 overview of the career services & development category based on data from comScore Media Metrix and comScore Marketer. The study revealed that more than 65 million Americans visited the category in June, representing a 10-percent increase versus year ago, ranking it as one of the top-growing site categories. Seven of the top ten sites in the category achieved double-digit gains during that period.
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Risk of Poverty Six Times Greater for Older Americans Lacking Pensions
added: 02-08-2009

Defined benefit pension income plays a critical role in reducing the risk of poverty and hardship among older Americans. According to a study, rates of poverty among older households lacking pension income were about six times greater than those with such income. The analysis also finds that pensions reduce – and in some cases eliminate – the greater risk of poverty and public assistance dependence that women and minority populations otherwise would face.
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The Internet Has Become a Powerful Influence in Health Care
added: 01-08-2009

The Internet has become a powerful influence in health care. Eleven years ago, in 1998, The Harris Poll® reported that about one-quarter of all adults, 54 million people had ever gone online to look for health information. This number increased rapidly every year until 2007, when we found that 71% of adults, 160 million people, had done this. The great majority of users find this information reliable and many discuss it with their doctors.
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In Tough Times, Volunteering in America Remains Strong
added: 01-08-2009

A new report released by the Corporation for National and Community Service finds that even during a time of prolonged economic recession, volunteering has remained steady, fueled by a compassion boom led by young adults and a wave of do-it-yourself volunteers working with their neighbors to fix problems.
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Frost & Sullivan Study Reveals Telecom Sector to be the Most Resilient Sector in South Asia and Middle East Markets
added: 01-08-2009

Global economies have had to face the heat of recession in recent years. Sectors which were growing by leaps and bounds and were at a time the most sought after markets to invest in, turned to dust in no time. During such trying times, the only sector, which has remained unscathed, has been telecom.
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69% of Workers Helped by EU Globalisation Fund Found Another Job
added: 31-07-2009

10,000 workers were helped by the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) last year and of these, more than two-thirds found a new job, according to a report adopted by the European Commission. The second annual report on the EGF shows an increasing uptake of the funds by EU countries for measures to support workers dismissed as a result of globalisation. It also reports on the outcome of the first EGF contributions in terms of helping the redundant workers into new jobs.
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Euro Area Unemployment up to 9.4% in June 2009
added: 31-07-2009

The euro area (EA16) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 9.4% in June 2009, compared with 9.3% in May. It was 7.5% in June 2008. The EU27 unemployment rate was 8.9% in June 2009, compared with 8.8% in May. It was 6.9% in June 2008. For the euro area this is the highest rate since June 1999 and for the EU27 since June 2005.
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Investors Line Up But U.S. Distressed Debt Market is Slow to Develop
added: 31-07-2009

Long lines of cash-rich investors are forming around what some believe could be the biggest distressed debt sales market since the days of the U.S. savings & loan crisis, but Ernst & Young LLP's latest survey of those investors suggests this market won't follow quite the same pattern of the 1990s.
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Bloomberg Euro-Zone PMI Signals Further Sales Decline in July 2009
added: 31-07-2009

The Bloomberg Euro-Zone Retail Purchasing Managers' Index ("PMI "), based on a mid-month survey of more than 1,000 executives in the euro area retail sector that provides data one month ahead of government-issued figures, fell from 47.5 in June to 47.3 in July. By dropping further below the no-change level of 50.0, the seasonally adjusted index pointed to a sharper rate of decline in like-for-like sales, which have now fallen for fourteen successive months. The rate of contraction in July was also faster than the average during Q2, but has eased since Q1 and the survey-record pace seen last November.
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Trust in Business on Upswing
added: 31-07-2009

Trust in business has stabilized and is recovering significantly in some of the world's largest markets. Nearly one-half of informed publics (48%) in the United States trust business to do what is right, up from a low of 36% in January. France saw an 11-point jump, from 30% to 41%, according to a six-country midyear Edelman Trust Barometer. Previous results, released in January 2009, showed a devastating loss in trust in the private sector. Trust in government is also on the ascent, with a 12-point increase in the U.S. (30% to 42%) and a 13-point jump in India (42% to 55%).
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