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Schooling key for good jobs
Kane County Chronicle - Unemployment dropped almost a third in Illinois since last year, dipping 1.1 percentage points to 4.7 percent. And that was good news in an election year. Illinois might have lost 8,900 manufacturing jobs in 2005-06, but it added 64,400 service jobs

Bishop criticises City pay rates
BBC UK - And in September, he said prayers at a service for NHS workers in Worcestershire who were about to lose their jobs because of financial cutbacks. Speaking on BBC Radio Four's PM programme, the bishop said: "What we find most unfair when looking at

Thomson to cut 2,600 jobs in UK
BBC News - TUI, the German travel company owner of Thomson Holidays, said it plans to cut 2,600 jobs in the UK. Travel companies such as TUI and Thomson are having to restructure their business, as consumers book an increasing number of holidays online. The

UPDATE 1-Sovereign to cut jobs in cost-reduction plan
Reuters - NEW YORK, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Sovereign Bancorp Inc. (SOV.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) said on Friday it would cut about 800 jobs, or 7 percent of its work force, as part of a plan to reduce costs by $100 million. That bank had said on Oct. 17 that

Md. hopes to attract defense jobs
Boston Globe - CUMBERLAND, Md. -- Allegany County hopes to bring defense jobs to business parks in the Cumberland and Frostburg areas, a county official said Friday. Economic Development Director Matt Diaz said the Barton Business Park, about 8 miles south of

Sovereign will ax 800 jobs, 77 locally, in bid to cut costs
Boston Globe - Sovereign Bancorp. said yesterday it will cut 800 jobs, 77 of them locally, from its workforce of almost 9,000 and close most of its wholesale mortgage operation in an effort to slash costs by $100 million annually. The cuts are the first outward

10 jobs that let you shop
CNN - Editor's note: CNN.com has a business partnership with CareerBuilder.com, which serves as the exclusive provider of job listings and services to CNN.com. (CareerBuilder.com) -- If shopping were an Olympic sport, you'd take home the gold every time

Jobs for officers of Saddam era
New Zealand Herald - BAGHDAD - Iraq's embattled Prime Minister offered an olive branch yesterday to former supporters of Saddam Hussein, including the army, calling for them to join a peace process in the war-racked country. Opening a national reconciliation conference