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Promise of hot jobs, big growth takes page from Scripps’ script
Promise of hot jobs, big growth takes page from Scripps’ script

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U.S. companies added 67,000 jobs in August
Mark Ralston/Getty ImagesAmericans hold up “I want to work” placards as they join a protest of several thousand people demanding jobs outside City Hall in Los Angeles on August 13, 2010. Companies in the U.S. added more jobs than forecast…

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Jobs for EEs and ITs in the Asia-Pacific Region
There is no shortage of jobs for EEs and IT professionals in the Asia-Pacific region.

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News report features a unique program offered by Madison Area Technical College where students get hands on training in biotechnology. This is an emerging and growing field, especially as stem cell research progresses in the United States.

The Economic Impact of a Holy Cross Hospital in Germantown, MD Executive Summary This Sage Policy Group, Inc. (Sage) report estimates the economic and fiscal impacts associated with the proposed Holy Cross Hospital – Germantown. What is being proposed represents a unique economic development opportunity. To the study teams knowledge, no hospital in the nations history has been located on a community college campus with an educational partnership. The proposed new Holy Cross 93-bed facility would be built on the Germantown campus of Montgomery College as the anchor tenant of the college’s Science and Technology Park, which is envisioned as home to the hospital, biotechnology companies, other high-tech companies, and a bioscience education center that are collectively expected to occupy as much as 1 million square feet of office and lab space. The new hospital would directly serve the most rapidly growing community in Montgomery County and create employment opportunities in a part of the county that has fewer of them. Over the past three decades, Montgomery Countys population expanded 64 percent with a disproportionate number of the 370000 newcomers arriving in the countys northwest quadrant along I-270. According to data from the Montgomery County Department of Planning, the number of jobs per 1000 population in Germantown is nearly half that of the county as a whole (274 vs. 534). This upcounty population (of approximately 220000) represents the states largest …

Jobs: What’s a governor to do?
Gov. Martin O’Malley (right) meets Wayne Swift, who has worked for 42 years at the Rubberset Co., during a tour of the Sherwin-Williams-owned factory in Crisfield on Wednesday.

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Employment Catch-22: San Diego’s Economy Needs Jobs to Grow Jobs
In a way, San Diego’s and the nation’s jobless picture is in a Catch-22 position.

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Fiorina says Calif. climate law is killing jobs
GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina appeared on a national cable news show Wednesday asserting that California’s law to fight global warming is killing jobs, but a review shows its economic effects remain uncertain.

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Jobs and Careers: Where Did All the Executives Go?
After shedding help in droves during the recession, many businesses find they are now shrunken and bereft of the qualified professionals needed to kick-start growth again.

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County jobs picture slightly brighter
Solano County’s employment picture improved slightly in May, the third month in a row that unemployment rates have dropped locally.Unemployment in Solano County was 11.8 percent in May, down from a revised 12.2 percent in April and 13 percent in March.

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