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RPT-EXCLUSIVE-Wal-Mart's everyday hiring strategy: Add more temps
Reuters(Repeats to widen distribution) By Dhanya Skariachan and Jessica Wohl June 13 (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc has in recent months been only hiring temporary workers at many of its U.S. stores, the first time the world's largest retailer has done so...Tags: Target, Employment, Career and Workplace, Groceries, Dollar General Corporation
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Robert Fogel dies at 86; economic historian won Nobel Prize
Robert Fogel, the University of Chicago economic historian awarded a Nobel Prize for his data-driven reconsiderations of how railways and slavery influenced U.S. economic history, has died. He was 86. Fogel died Tuesday at Manor Care Health Services...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Health and Safety at School, New York City, Nobel Prize Awards, Travel
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Democrats hit the road to sell public on Obamacare
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Three years after it passed, President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats are still trying to sell the federal health care law to a skeptical nation. Lawmakers, armed with tool kits and fact sheets, are fanning out across the nation to tout the...Tags: Laws, Prescription Drugs, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance, Crime, Law and Justice
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Nearly 300 Cambodian garment makers fired over strikes
ReutersPHNOM PENH, June 11 (Reuters) - Nearly 300 Cambodian garment workers who produce clothing for U.S sportswear company Nike have been dismissed for taking part in strikes seeking higher pay that turned violent, according to their union and dismissal...Tags: Strikes, Labor Legislation, Cambodia, Career and Workplace
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U.S. hiring outlook positive; global employers uncertain -report
ReutersBy Madeline Will NEW YORK, June 11 (Reuters) - More employers in the United States plan to hire workers next quarter than in any period since the fourth quarter of 2008, according to a survey by Manpower Group, the global employment services giant....Tags: China, Employment Opportunities, Science and Technology, Employment, Washington, DC
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EM Orr set to meet with Detroit's creditors
DETROIT (AP) — When state-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr meets with Detroit's creditors and bond debt holders, he plans to lay out for them the depths of the city's financial collapse. Friday's meeting at the Westin Hotel at Detroit...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Financially Distressed Companies, Finance, Rick Snyder, Bankruptcy
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Cuts to Alzheimer's research show folly of sequestration
Many Republicans, and Democrats, never thought the automatic across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration would take effect. After all, they might produce dangerous, if unintended, consequences such as potentially bankrupting the U.S. health care...Tags: Parkinson's Disease, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Science and Technology, Alzheimer's Association
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Health care act will spur competition among insurers
I work for a mid-size firm Baltimore, and our health insurance costs will rise only modestly in 2013. However, in talking to friends at local companies, their health insurers are raising rates exorbitantly in anticipation of the state health exchanges...Tags: Barack Obama, Health Insurance, Mitt Romney, U.S. Congress, Insurance
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Backers of rate regulation aren't satisfied with health exchange
President Obama singled out California last week for getting better-than-expected rates in its rollout of the health insurance overhaul for millions of consumers. Yet some Obamacare supporters say those premiums are still too high, and they are...
Tags: Barack Obama, Health Insurance, Insurance
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Griffin: Seminole needs to use tax hike for $25M in school improvements
SANFORD — Superintendent Walt Griffin has a long list of school needs that he says justifies an additional 1-mill tax on Seminole County property, but he has not convinced the School Board. Replacing leaky roofs and failing air-conditioning...
Tags: Teachers, Science and Technology, Career and Workplace, Budgets and Budgeting, Referenda
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Aetna Becomes Third Insurer To Submit Rates For State Health Exchange
The Hartford CourantAetna this week became the third insurer to submit proposed rates for new health plans offered later this year on Connecticut's public health exchange. Aetna filed the suggested rates with regulators at the Connecticut Insurance Department on Thursday....Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance, Aetna Inc., Business, Small Businesses
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Medicare not going broke as fast as once predicted
Florida's senior citizens and millions of baby boomers preparing for a long retirement can breathe just a little easier, but not much. Medicare is not going broke quite as quickly as once feared, government trustees reported on Friday, while Social...
Tags: Broward County, Miami Shores, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, Retirement
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