Residents seek help in higher numbers (Cherokee Tribune)

Nonprofit agencies that offer employment assistance to Cherokee County residents are reporting increases in the number of people seeking their services.

Part-time job fair attracts a ‘couple thousand’ students (The Eureka Reporter)

Category: Local News Topics: Employment “I love hydrangeas,” Chris Fink said.

Queen Elizabeth Hotel workers on strike (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News)

More than 600 employees at Montreal's landmark Queen Elizabeth Hotel went on strike Thursday morning to protest what they call a lack of progress in contract talks.

Construction jobs hard to come by this summer (The Kansas City Star)

Still reeling from the subprime mortgage mess and the economic downturn it spawned, the troubled construction industry got another jolt of bad news recently when the production of single-family homes hit its lowest annual rate since 1991.

Asides (The Wenatchee World)

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