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Number of U.S. tech jobs rises despite fears of outsourcing

Tech executives are also backing a federal bill moving through the Senate seeking more math and science teachers in poor schools.

"Making the Grass Greener: Recommendations to Attract, Retain, Develop & Support Knowledge Workers"

This report also assumes that change is needed and wanted; otherwise there is
no need to do a report.

Your commute might be hazardous to your health

Stress, higher blood pressure can be linked to long drives, researchers find

The 2007 State New Economy Index. Benchmarking Economic Transformation

Economies – national, state, or local – have two principal ways
to grow over the medium and longer term. They can get
bigger by increasing the number of employed workers, or
they can get more productive, increasing the value each
worker produces.

The Hormel Family Foundation Sponsors Business Plan Competition for McCook, Nebraska Entrepreneurs

The competition is open to anyone interested in operating a business in or near McCook. The foundation welcomes submissions from start-ups as well as local business owners looking to expand or improve their businesses.

Commerce chief committed to luring quality jobs to Arizona

If you are going to someday have a job, we hope that we have an impact on your life. If you currently have a job, we hope we’ve had an impact on that; that you have a quality job, you have a myriad of benefits and your income is enough to afford you housing in the state.

We hope that if you’ve come to Arizona because you’re retired that commerce has somehow impacted your life because we have provided you with a kind of quality job that has allowed you to finally retire.

Uncovering America’s Longest Commutes

Seven hours is extraordinary, but four hours, increasingly, is not. Roughly one out of every six American workers commutes more than forty-five minutes, each way.

Citigroup to idle 17,000 – to shift 9,500 positions to "lower cost locations"

"We already have lots of jobs in India — but also in Shanghai, Manila and Buffalo, N.Y.," he said. "We’re looking for the right location."

India High-Tech Industry Out of Workers

Nearly two decades into India’s phenomenal growth as an international center for high technology, the industry has a problem: It’s running out of workers.

Microsoft expanding operations in North Dakota

Another company is shipping jobs to a remote land to find good workers for less money. In this case, the company is Microsoft Corp. But the faraway land is only two time zones away.