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Millions Lose COBRA subsidies today.
Millions of laid off workers will lose their COBRA subsidies today. The subsidies that ran out today were provided to workers starting in March 2009, for nine months, and paid 65% of a person’s health insurance. COBRA subsidies will continue for pe...
What Google knows about you
Ever wonder what Google knows about you ? Now there is an easy way to find out. Google just released a tool called the Dashboard Privacy tool. Essentially it is a collection of everything that you do on Google in one place. Most of us can probabl...
“Real” Unemployment rate: 17.5%
There was a story on CNBC today that the “real” unemployment was 17.5%. That is nearly one in 5 Americans that are out of jobs. Scary joke …but i thought we are already past Halloween. Curious … I dug around to see where thi...
Right way to cut a credit card.
Most potential employers routinely do credit and criminal background checks. A number of potential job seekers are rejected when these checks come back with red flags. Some people don’t realize this but they may be victims of identity theft ...
Unemployment Rate rises to 10.2% – worst since 1983.
America’s unemployment rate rose to 10.2% – the highest since 1983. The rate is provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and was much worse than expected. It appears that employers are still cutting payroll in spite of an improv...
Unemployment Rate rises to 10.2% - worst since 1983.
America’s unemployment rate rose to 10.2% - the highest since 1983. The rate is provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and was much worse than expected. It appears that employers are still cutting payroll in spite of an improving ec...

