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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Bailouts and market fluctuations: What to do?

Business | By Kathy M. Kristof | September 21, 2008
In a financial crisis, the typical advice from experts is to stay the course, keeping investments in place for the long term and waiting out the downturn. Read more
 

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Raid at bakery leads to 53 arrests

California | Local | By Anna Gorman | September 11, 2008
A work site raid at a Palm Springs bakery Wednesday resulted in the arrests of 51 illegal immigrant workers and their current and former supervisors, who allegedly hired the employees in exchange for money. Read more
 

Monday, September 1, 2008

Seeking to help at-risk workers

Business | By Ronald D. White | September 1, 2008
Business leaders, trade unions, community activists and the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency say they are on the verge of an agreement that could help provide access to middle-income construction jobs for disadvantaged Angelenos. Read more
 

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Landing a hot job in a cool economy

Business | By Marc Lifsher | August 31, 2008
Olga Vityak has a prescription for landing a recession-proof job: Go back to school and get trained in a fast-growing healthcare field. Read more
 

Monday, July 14, 2008

Governor’s cuts stymie first lady’s idea

California | Local | By Nancy Vogel | July 14, 2008
First Lady Maria Shriver set an ambitious agenda last year to dispel a common misperception that people who are physically or mentally impaired cannot hold jobs: Launch a campaign to find employment for 20,000 Californians with developmental disabilities. Read more
 

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Having degree of anxiety

California | Local | By Gale Holl | July 8, 2008
He took 15 AP classes in high school, and kicks himself for passing up two others. Read more
 

Saturday, June 21, 2008

More misery in jobs report

Business | By Marc Lifsher | June 21, 2008
California’s moribund construction and real estate industries helped push the state unemployment rate to 6.8% in May, its highest level in nearly five years. Read more
 

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Bush widens worker checks

National | By Nicole Gaouette | June 10, 2008
The Bush administration, in an aggressive new effort to keep illegal immigrants out of the workforce, on Monday ordered all companies doing business with the federal government to begin ensuring their employees can legally work in the U.S. The order will require thousands of firms to use a government system called E-Verify to check workers’ Social Security numbers. Read more
 

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Students’ options changing by degrees

California | Local | By Larry Gordon | June 3, 2008
Laura Simurda faced a tough decision recently in choosing which of three simultaneous graduation ceremonies to attend at USC. After all, she was a triple major, earning degrees in astronomy, history and print journalism. Read more
 

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Newer teachers find timing is bad in state job hunt

California | Local | By Seema Mehta | May 25, 2008
Diana Nguyen has dreamed of teaching high school since she was inspired by her ninth-grade world history instructor, who made the subject jump off the page. Read more
 

Friday, May 23, 2008

Word for older workers: retail

California | Local | By Maria L. La Ganga | May 23, 2008
Five days a week, Max Gumbert drives up to the 95,000-square-foot Home Depot store in this leafy suburb at the northern edge of Silicon Valley, straps on an orange apron sagging with customer service badges and gets to work. Read more
 

Friday, May 16, 2008

This role would test anyone

Entertainment | By Lynn Smith | May 16, 2008
In the summer of 2003, Austin Highsmith, a young actress from North Carolina, packed a suitcase and drove cross-country in pursuit of the Hollywood dream. Read more
 

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Defense contractor is humming and hiring

Business | By Peter Pae | May 10, 2008
With a bulbous head and plank-like wings, the aircraft resembles a lumbering whale. Read more
 

Sunday, May 4, 2008

New graduates have plenty to learn about work etiquette

Business | By Kathy M. Kristof | May 4, 2008
Are you a new graduate about to get your first job? Read more
 

Monday, April 14, 2008

World | By Chris Kraul | April 14, 2008
After a lifetime spent digging for black clams in the swamps that line the coast here, Clojilda Velasco remembers when she could count on finding 400 a day. Read more
 

Friday, March 28, 2008

Vets face grim job prospects

Business | By Tiffany Hsu | March 28, 2008
Aboard the retired cruise ship Queen Mary – a World War II veteran redeployed as a tourist attraction – former members of the armed services Thursday got an extra ration of employment help. Read more
 

Friday, March 21, 2008

Port shifts plan’s cost to shippers

California | Local | March 21, 2008
The Los Angeles Harbor Commission on Thursday unanimously approved a clean air plan requiring shipping companies to buy and maintain a modernized fleet of big rigs and employ thousands of independent truckers who currently operate under contract. Read more
 

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Paper must pay in labor case

Business | March 1, 2008
One of the nation’s largest Chinese-language newspapers was slapped with a federal court order to pay $5.2 million to past and current employees who were forced to work 12-hour days without breaks or overtime pay. Read more
 

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Solar is key to DWP’s green energy drive

California | Local | February 20, 2008
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other municipal leaders unveiled a green energy initiative Tuesday by the city’s utility that they predict will create as many as 400 union jobs over the next three years to install and maintain solar panels on city buildings and other structures around Los Angeles. Read more
 

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

WASHINGTOND.C.

National | February 6, 2008
New items stall stimulus bill in Senate The economic stimulus bill that shot through the House in a burst of bipartisan agreement last week remained stalled in the Senate. Read more
 
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