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Tough Work

On January 15, Senate President Mike Haridopolos and House Speaker Dean Cannon joined business, education, government and labor leaders at the Florida Jobs Summit to brainstorm how best to rebuild the state’s economic prosperity. With 3,073 offenders released from Florida prisons this past August alone, this issue is worth considering.

Current Events, Politics & Economy

Bauer’s Blunder: Disadvantaged People = Stray Animals?

  Human Beings, also known as Homo sapiens, are, in fact, animals.  We simply fail to acknowledge that on a daily basis.  Perhaps it is our subconscious goal of distancing ourselves from our barbaric, primal past or from our less evolved friends throughout the animal world.  According to Wikipedia, we possess a “highly developed brain, [...]

Current Events, Politics & Economy

Diamonds in the Rough

Employers sift through a virtual treasure trove of candidates for any posted job these days.

As reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, 12/8/09), “…there were 13.2 million more unemployed workers than job openings in October, or 6.3 job seekers per available job…”.

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