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FOX Business | Avon to Axe 1,500 Jobs, Exit Some Markets
Avon (AVP) said Wednesday it will cut 1,500 jobs globally over the next year and exit South Korea and Vietnam as it looks to shed the excess fat from its operations and hone in on faster growing "high priority" markets.
Blogs
Café Hayek | Is the safety net keeping the unemployment rate high?
I talked to Casey Mulligan about his new book, The Redistribution Recession. He argues in that book that the increased generosity of the safety net–unemployment compensation, food stamps, help with health care and so on, played a major role in worsening the recession and slowing down the recovery.
Calculated Risk | BLS: Job Openings "little changed" in October
The level of total nonfarm job openings in October was up from 2.4 million at the end of the recession in June 2009.
AEI | Michigan becomes 24th right-to-work state and joins states creating jobs at almost 3X the rate of forced unionism states
In an historic milestone for the rights of American workers to decide whether to join labor unions, Michigan became a “right to work” state today over the protests of thousands of union workers and teachers.
