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Washington County unemployment down to 8.1 percent
The unemployment rate in Washington County ticked up from 8 percent in October to 8.1 percent in November as the number of people working and seeking work fell, while the number of unemployed increased, according to preliminary figures released Friday...
Tags: Employment, Unemployment, Career and Workplace, Howard County, Employment Opportunities
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Washington County business leaders: Economy took baby steps in 2012
arnoldp@herald-mail.comWashington County’s economy took baby steps forward in 2012, but the path has been bumpy and tremendous cracks are looming, business leaders said last month. “We’re seeing little incremental improvements,” said Peggy Bushey,...Tags: Politics, Health Care Reform (2009), Sales, Health Insurance, Norfolk Southern Corporation
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Despite falling jobless rate, many still looking
arnoldp@herald-mail.comIn the three years of economic boom leading up to the recession, the nation’s unemployment rate fell from a high of 5.8 percent in 2004 to a low of 4.4 percent in 2007, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The lower the rate gets,...Tags: Employment, Unemployment, Jefferson County (Pennsylvania), Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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Labor battle possible in W.Va. in 2013
Michigan’s recent move to ban unions from collecting mandatory dues from workers might raise the profile of that and similar issues at the West Virginia Legislature’s next session. Champions of the policy known as right to work include at...Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Earl Ray Tomblin, Politics, Government, West Virginia Legislature
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Franklin County unemployment down to 6.4 percent
waynesboro@herald-mail.comNew businesses off Exit 17 of Interstate 81 in Franklin County, Pa., helped the county’s unemployment rate drop to 6.4 percent in November. The county’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased two-tenths of a percentage point from...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Employment, Unemployment, Business, Career and Workplace
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Cliff avoided; Congress staves off income tax hikes for middle class
Associated PressPast its own New Year’s deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national “fiscal cliff” of middle class tax increases and spending cuts late Tuesday night in the culmination of a struggle that...Tags: National Government, Politics, Government, Nancy Pelosi, Government Health Care
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Area residents provide ideas for upcoming General Assembly
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comGun control could be at the forefront of the 2013 Maryland General Assembly session after the shooting in Newtown, Conn., last month, and Hagerstown resident Virginia Fennel said it should be. “They need some kind of laws or legislation to...Tags: Unemployment, Politics, Fennel, Health Care Reform (2009), Labor Legislation
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Brien Poffenberger: A white-knuckle ride to fiscal cliff's edge
Last year, when Congress and President Obama couldn’t reach a budget deal, they agreed to a doomsday plan with an automatic timer set to go off at the end of 2012. What we have come to call the “fiscal cliff” combines indiscriminant...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama, Business, Productivity, Fiscal Cliff
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Brien Poffenberger: Some bright spots are on the horizon for Washington County
Happy New Year from the Chamber of Commerce! As we settle into our routines for 2013, the new year will look pretty much like the old one. Economic recovery continues in Washington County, but it remains incremental and painfully slow. The New Year brings...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Barbara A. Mikulski, Unemployment, Arts and Culture, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development
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Acting U.S. commerce secretary visits Macy's center in Martinsburg
matthewu@herald-mail.comActing U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank, in a visit to the new Macy’s distribution center in Martinsburg, said taxes on the average American family would increase by $2,200 next year if the “fiscal cliff” is not addressed. “...Tags: Holidays, Politics, Barack Obama, Fiscal Cliff, U.S. Congress
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Falling food, gas costs lower U.S. wholesale prices
AP Economics WriterU.S. wholesale prices fell for the third month in a row last month, pushed down by falling food and gas costs. The drop is the latest evidence inflation is tame. The producer price index dropped 0.2 percent in December, the Labor Department said Tuesday....Tags: Inflation and Deflation, Prices, Consumers, Federal Reserve, AAA
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Letters to the Editor - Dec. 1
Cheap stunt will not divide and conquer To the editor: This letter is in response to “Obama voters have made their bed.” (Nov. 17, 2012) It is an interesting sociological phenomenon how groups of people can view the same incident and...Tags: Job Layoffs, Politics, Barack Obama, Productivity, Layoffs and Downsizing
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