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A US man apparently distraught over job problems is thought to have shot dead his wife and five young children before turning the gun on himself.
New research has found that a whopping 11 million Brits are thinking of taking a job overseas within the next two years - a significant dent in the population - and a fifth of those would choose a new life down under...
2009-05-15
UK migration unemployment exodus immigration emigration AustraliaIn a bold new measure intended to address unemployment among young professionals, lawmakers from across the political spectrum agreed on legislation Tuesday to subsidize the cryogenic freezing of recent college graduates until the job market recovers.
2010-03-15
unemployment cryogenics future timeLoss-making coal mines across the EU will have to close over the next four years, the European Commission says.
2010-07-21
coal mine European Union business unemployment efficiencyIn the name of job creation and clean energy, the Obama administration has doled out billions of dollars in stimulus money to some of the nation’s biggest polluters and granted them sweeping exemptions from the most basic form of environmental oversight, a Center for Public Integrity investigation has found.
2010-11-28
pollution unemployment USA environment economyThe past three years have been a disaster for most Western economies. The United States has mass long-term unemployment for the first time since the 1930s. Meanwhile, Europe’s single currency is coming apart at the seams. How did it all go so wrong? Well, what I’ve been hearing with growing frequency from members of the policy elite — self-appointed wise men, officials, and pundits in good standing — is the claim that it’s mostly the...
2011-05-08
Paul Krugman economy crisis euro European Union USA debt politics Iraq invasion 9/11 George W. Bush unemploymentIn many rural areas of the former Soviet Union, poverty and unemployment are forcing people to leave. But in Armenia it is men who are going, leaving whole villages almost entirely populated by women.
2011-08-10
Russia Armenia unemployment migrationThousands of young unemployed professionals are escaping Portugal's crippling economic crisis by finding jobs in former colonies, such as Brazil and Angola. The reversal of traditional migration patterns is fuelling talk of a "lost generation"...
2011-09-01
Portugal crisis economy job colony Brazil Mozambique Angola unemployment migration