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Life after redevelopment: Burbank avoids mass layoffs
The still uncertain impact of losing local redevelopment has prompted a major reshuffling of job titles and salaries at Burbank City Hall. Burbank's redevelopment agency had directly funded 25 full-time employees, said Community Development Director...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Budgets and Budgeting, Job Layoffs
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The job market is bad enough; why add immigration reform?
Years ago it was unthinkable that smart, ambitious and college-educated young people would have trouble finding entry level work ("Slow start," May 12). Today, this youthful demographic has been simultaneously dumped on a shrinking employment market and...Tags: Immigration, U.S. Department of State, Ocean City
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To the Class of 2013: Resist simplicity
Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world that...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Graduation, Authors, Yale University, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Graduates must resist the urge for simplicity
Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world into...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Graduation, Authors, Yale University, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Tourism is a quiet driver of local economy
Dwelling as we have of late on Downtown Hagerstown’s cloudy future is all well and good, but at some point we might stop to remember that our inherent strength is changing over time. Instead of coming from the city, our economic engine is...Tags: Productivity, The Herald-Mail, National Parks, Arts and Culture
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State announces millions in grants for War of 1812 commemoration
Maryland will help sponsor eight festivals this year commemorating the War of 1812, an effort officials hope will boost tourism and economic development. The state would put up $2.1 million in matching grants to various non-profits for 23 War of 1812...
Tags: War of 1812, Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Baltimore reshaping approach to aging water lines
Baltimore water officials have been dogged in the past year by a series of extremely public problems: widespread billing errors that required millions in refunds, massive water main breaks that closed downtown streets, and a collapsed stormwater culvert...
Tags: Politics, Loans, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Consumers, Public Finance
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Inauguration 2013: Obama addresses gays, compromise, climate change
WASHINGTON – After Barack Obama publicly took the oath of office for his second term on Monday, he strongly defended the ideology of his party as he urged Americans to accept compromise as a path toward solving the nation’s problems. “...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Parties and Movements, Justice System, White House
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The middle class languishes as the super-rich thrive
The good news for the U.S. economy as we enter 2013 is that the election's over. The bad news is that the election's over. What's good about it is that both parties in Washington can shed their preoccupation with the campaign theatrics that dominated...
Tags: Paul Ryan, Productivity, Labor Markets, Barack Obama, Labor Legislation
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O'Malley postpones Middle East trip
Gov. Martin O'Malley has postponed his planned post-Thanksgiving economic development trip to the Middle East, saying he does not want to create a distraction during the conflict between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The governor's office...
Tags: Executive Branch, Travel, Politics, Economic Policy, Regional Authority
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AP analysis: Economic recovery is weakest since World War II
Blog-o-nomics - Orlando SentinelBad news for President Barack Obama in the form of a new Associated Press analysis of the economic recovery. AP says this recovery is the weakest of any since World War II, hobbled by problems that refuse to go away quickly. A few key paragraphs from... -
Robert B. Reich: Why the economy can't get out of first gear
Rarely in history has the cause of a major economic problem been so clear, yet have so few been willing to see it. The major reason this recovery has been so anemic is not Europe's debt crisis. It's not, as right-wing economists tell us, because taxes...
Tags: Productivity, Federal Reserve, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, National Interstate Corporation
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Dec 30, 2012
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Nov 20, 2012
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