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Minority Caucus endorses casino
Kent County Times - PROVIDENCE - Seeing opportunities for jobs and for minority businesses to supply and service a casino, the Minority Legislator/Leadership caucus endorsed the West Warwick casino project at a Statehouse news conference yesterday. Rep. Joseph Almeida

Reaction to Local Plant Cutting Jobs Reaction to Local Plant Cutting
WLNS - A Brighton automotive plant has plans to downsize its workforce. Hundreds of workers at Atreum-Brighton will soon be out of a job. Atreum-Brighton is a manufacturing division of Intier Automotive Interiors Group. According to their website, the

Poland's unemployed refuse low-paid jobs
Washington Times - A shortage of people willing to take low-paying jobs, despite an unemployment rate of 15 percent, has Poland's authorities concerned. Officially, about 660,000 Poles have left for Western countries in the past two years looking for better-paying jobs

Alabama lands third Kia supplier, 170 jobs, in Opelika
Philadelphia Enquirer - MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama has landed a third Kia Motors Corp. supplier, which is locating in Opelika and will create 170 jobs, Gov. Bob Riley announced Thursday, a day before Kia holds the groundbreaking of its $1.2 billion auto plant in West Point

Police and fire jobs the last place to cut
Home News Tribune - In these times in which we find ourselves constantly contemplating threats from home and abroad, natural and otherwise, it seems incomprehensible that local political leadership would consider the layoff of essential emergency workers. Perth Amboy

Kemet to Cut 400 Jobs in Mexico
Circuits Assembly - GREENVILLE, SC,-- Kemet Corp. will reduce headcount by approximately 400 people in its Monterrey, Mexico, facilities. Kemet will take about $800,000 in charges to layoff the full-time workers, and expects to save over $4 million per year. This

Route 43 could be road to new jobs
Baltimore Sun - As the first drivers roll down a new $75 million stretch of White Marsh Boulevard today, they will wind through one of the few large undeveloped commercial tracts on the East Coast accessible to Interstate 95. They will head toward a place that once

Exaggeration is bad government
Belleville News-Democrat - In 2001, then Illinois Gov. George Ryan announced that the Amateur Trapshooting Association would relocate its national headquarters and museum to the Sparta near the state shooting complex, creating 20 full-time jobs and hundreds of part-time jobs