Being nominated by your clients for a major industry award is humbling enough, but actually winning it? “That would be indescribable,” said Lisa Lunsford, CEO and cofounder of Global Strategic Supply Solutions LLC (GS3 Global). Earlier this year, one of

  BY ERIC PIANIN, The Fiscal Times October 17, 2014 A rural telephone company called Frontier Communications has intentionally hired more than 250 long-term unemployed since January. KPMG, the behemoth auditing and tax advisory services firm, reached out to hire 300

A California power company developed a unique in-house training program after facing a major worker shortage. BY ALEX BROWN This is the second in a weeklong series that examines different programs around the country that try to tackle the unemployment crisis and keep

It has come down to this for Brian Perry: an apple or banana for lunch, Red Sox ballgames on an old Zenith TV and long walks to shake off the blues. At 57, Perry has been unemployed and looking for

By Michelle Jamrisko, Bloomberg News Leticia Vives thought her rise from teller to senior teller to manager during 23 years at Bank of America had earned her staying power, or at least the experience to find work elsewhere. Still jobless 18 months

Solutions exist to help those who have been out of the workforce for long periods. Why aren’t we trying them? BY NANCY COOK On Friday morning, another closely watched jobs report will tell us the number of new positions the economy

More than half ate free meals at work because their food budgets were too stretched at home. Oakland has become a restaurant boomtown, with more than 200 new restaurants debuting there in the past three years alone. But while the

“We’ve created more jobs, I think, for the job centers than through the job centers. Let me restate that, if that’s not clear. The people who work in our job centers in the past have actually been more jobs than

At last, unemployment is easing. But the latest low rate – hovering below 6 percent –obscures a deeper, longer-term problem: “skills mismatches” in the labor force that will only worsen in years to come. According to the most recent figures, 9.3

What justifies so much government spending per student at private elite universities? Imagine a system of college education supported by high and growing government spending on elite private universities that mainly educate children of the wealthy and upper-middle-class, and low