WASHINGTON — A month ago, Google lobbyist Katherine Oyama absorbed one of the more unusual congressional tongue-lashings in years when she appeared before a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee. Rep. Tom Marino (R-Pa.) joked that Oyama had walked into a “lion’s den.” After praising representatives of drug giant Pfizer and the Motion Picture Association [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he’s going to travel the country telling lawmakers to do their jobs and vote in favor of his economic proposals, and he says congressional Republicans should stop picking partisan fights and act. Coming off a week when his nearly $450 billion jobs bill died in the Senate, Obama made [...]
Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric CEO and President Barack Obama’s job czar, said he wants the American public to root for him and his company — just like his employees do. “I think this notion that it’s the population of the U.S. against the big companies is just wrong. It’s just wrong-minded and when I walk [...]
Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Monday in an interview with the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that the state does not need more anthropologists. As it turns out, his daughter has a degree in anthropology. “Is it a vital interest of the state to have more anthropologists? I don’t think so,” Scott said. He told the Sarasota paper [...]
WASHINGTON — Joseph Rotella is president and owner of the Spencer Organ Co., a small business with 10 employees that specializes in rehabilitating pipe organs from churches and communities around the country. The operation does quite well, with roughly $2 million in revenue a year and enough profit to land Rotella squarely in the top [...]
WASHINGTON — Herman Cain’s now-famous “9-9-9″ tax plan was crafted by a rank-and-file investment adviser working at a Wells Fargo branch in an affluent rural Ohio town with a population of about 6,000 people. Cain name-checked Richard Lowrie during Tuesday night’s Republican debate on economic policy, and his campaign confirmed to HuffPost that Richard Lowrie [...]
Evidence that a major slowdown in economic activity is hitting the UK job market emerged today as unemployment surged past 2.5million to a 17-year high. The total number of jobless adults increased by a hefty 114,000 to 2.57million in June-to-August, official figures showed today, the worst figure since the autumn of 1994. A jobless rate [...]
WASHINGTON — A coalition of 25 civil rights and labor advocacy groups petitioned one of the nation’s largest credit-monitoring firms on Tuesday to quit selling consumer credit info to employers. Using credit histories to screen job applicants, the groups said, can trap the jobless and disproportionately burden black and Latino candidates. They want TransUnion, one of [...]
WASHINGTON — After two years on the unemployment rolls, Selena Forte thought she’d found a temporary job at a delivery company that matched her qualifications. But Forte, a 55-year-old from Cleveland, says a recruiter for an employment agency told her she would not be considered for the job because she had been out of work [...]
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