Outlook Youth Balancing A Career With School
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The entertainment industry has become one of the many options that young people find themselves considering as a career. Often, they neglect finishing their education as they feel that their career is all they need. Many are of the impression that a tertiary education is a waste of time, as it is virtually impossible to [...]
Obama Gets Economic Tour Underway
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George Bush called it the Ownership Society, but it’s little more than a worn dogma that says we should give more to those at the top and hope that their good fortune trickles down to the hardworking many. For eight long years, our President sacrificed investments in health care, and education, and energy, and infrastructure [...]
Senator Kennedy Spokesman On Declining Job Numbers
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Anthony Coley, spokesman for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, released the following statement concerning today’s jobs numbers, which showed a dramatic jump in the unemployment rate from 5.0 to 5.5 percent and an increase by 861,000 in the number of unemployed Americans (to a total of 8.5 million).
Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions [...]
Do We Really Need School Boards
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TROUBLE WAS predictable when, three years into their jobs, members of the Strait regional school board were ordered to write their own directive on ethics, responsibilities and how to behave with common courtesy.
Are these the folks we want running the system that teaches our children?
Over the weekend, Education Minister Karen Casey decided the answer to [...]
Study Health Industry Growing
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Comparatively, employment in automotive manufacturing dropped by about 17 percent in that same three-year period and education jobs grew by only about 2 percent.
“The growth in health care employment was not enough to offset the losses in manufacturing,” said Charles Ballard, professor of economics at Michigan State University. “But clearly we’re a whole lot better [...]
Former Singapore Re Head Learns From Experience
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Crucial to the efficient functioning of modern economies are reinsurance companies that, for a fee, insure policies sold by other insurers, essentially to spread the risk. A founding father of Singapore’s reinsurance industry is Hwang Soo Jin, 72 years old, chairman emeritus and senior adviser at Singapore Reinsurance Corp., or Singapore Re as it is [...]
Life Teaches Navy Vet Skills For Dream Job Late In Life
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Life teaches Navy vet skills for dream job late in lifeRubber bands keep the small, tattered notebook in James Long’s hands from falling apart.
By keeping the journal all these years, Long rekindles the memory of an earnest young sailor who made him the man he is today.
Long never wants to forget all the hours he [...]
Schools And Colleges Need A Response To Big Expansion Of Health Jobs
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Pharmacy, nursing and a host of medical therapies offer respected, well-paid careers with thousands of projected vacancies as today’s practitioners retire along with their fellow aging baby-boomers.
Delaware job growth in these fields has been a healthy 19 percent over the past five years. There are already 42,000 health care workers here, and the two crossing [...]
Is Technical Education Being Overlooked
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Educators at the Cabell County Career Technology Center claim their technical programs can and do provide high school students with training in industries that offer jobs with good pay.
But in most cases, getting to the level of that “good pay” will require that they attend some sort of post-secondary education, whether it be an apprenticeship, [...]
Governor Rendell Says New Amazon Facility To Create More Than Jobs In Luzerne County
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Governor Edward G. Rendell announced today that a state investment of $1.75 million helped the world’s leading online retailer, Amazon.com Inc., open a distribution center in Hazleton that will create more than 1,100 jobs within three years.
“Not only will this project result in more than a thousand new jobs for hard-working Pennsylvanians, but those jobs [...]
