Job alert - - Apartment shortage is a threat to Md. economy

Apartment shortage is a threat to Md. economy
Baltimore Sun - Apartments house the marginal worker: young, footloose and able to swoop into labor vacuums, especially vital technology jobs. Apartments thus furnish "liquidity" for a work force the way a good trade-processing operation lubricates a stock market.

Japanese expansions expected to bring jobs to Columbus, Greenfield
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Salaries, 2nd jobs both up
North Channel Sun - In a nationally recognized survey known as the definitive portrait of Texas teachers, statistics seem to point to one unassailable fact: The more things change, the more they remain the same. While teacher salaries have slowly risen since 1980, close

1,000-plus jobs lost since 2000
Evansville Courier-Press - The 21st century has not been good for the Henderson County work force. Every year since 2000, the number of people who work here has declined, according to state records on the number of people being covered by unemployment insurance. Employment in

Ballpark jobs
Arizona Daily Star - Giant fuzzy snakes are not supposed to talk. Wearing a 6-foot-6-inch Sandy the Sidewinder costume, I am approached by a 5-year-old girl on the Tucson Electric Park concourse during Thursday night's game. The girl, who looks like Cindy-Lou Who from Dr

Some jobs are going to the dogs
Victoria Advocate - FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A jumpy 2-year-old dog with a name fit for royalty, Princess Abigail Daisy DeFalco - Abby for short - scampers from one end of her owner's office to another, wagging her tail and putting her paws right up on the wooden

Here come the jobs
Times Union - The timing could not have been better. Just days after the U.S. Census Bureau showed upstate New York population growth during the last decade was slower than any state except North Dakota and West Virginia, state officials and executives of a