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  • 10 College Majors With The Highest Unemployment Rates [Infographic]

    10 College Majors With The Highest Unemployment Rates [Infographic]

    By David Schepp, Posted May 15th 2012 @ 3:40PM

    In this era of high unemployment, many parents and students wonder which college degrees pay off -- and which don't. A recent study by Georgetown University Center on Education looked at earnings and unemployment rates among recent and seasoned degree holders as well as those with graduate degrees and found ...

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  • A Job In High Demand That Pays $68,000 A Year

    A Job In High Demand That Pays $68,000 A Year

    By David Schepp, Posted May 7th 2012 @ 4:08PM

    As the nation's baby boomer generation has aged, there's been a corresponding increase in demand for workers to provide health-care services. It comes as little surprise then that the health-care sector has added an average of 28,000 jobs a month during the last 12 months, according to the Bureau of Labor ...

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  • NYC Health Aide Guilty Of Stealing $800,000 From Elderly Woman

    NYC Health Aide Guilty Of Stealing $800,000 From Elderly Woman

    By David Schepp, Posted May 3rd 2012 @ 1:30PM

    There are few stories more heart-wrenching than those in which workers take advantage of vulnerable senior citizens. But the case involving 86-year-old Renee Fuld is particularly egregious because the New York City woman also is disabled. Fuld's aide, Jackie Pokuwaah, 52, was arrested last year for allegedly ...

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  • 95-Year-Old Left In Car For 2 Hours As Caregiver Gambled, Police Say

    95-Year-Old Left In Car For 2 Hours As Caregiver Gambled, Police Say

    By David Schepp, Posted Feb 21st 2012 @ 12:14PM

    A woman responsible for taking care of a 95-year-old with dementia was arrested Sunday after leaving her in a car for more than two hours to gamble at a South Florida casino, police say. According to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Maria Holly, 53, was arrested after a visitor to the Seminole Casino Coconut ...

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  • Health Care Can Give Hope To Laid-Off Americans

    Health Care Can Give Hope To Laid-Off Americans

    By Claire Gordon, Posted Dec 7th 2011 @ 10:00AM

    As the recovery stutters along, one sector remains forever rosy. Over the past year, health care has added an average of 27,000 jobs per month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Health care jobs keep going up and up and up, from 8 million in 1990 to 14 million today, reports Business Insider. On ...

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  • Wal-Mart Trims Health Care Coverage For Some

    Wal-Mart Trims Health Care Coverage For Some

    By AP, Posted Oct 24th 2011 @ 9:16AM

    By Anne D'Innocenzio NEW YORK (AP) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's largest private employer, is scaling back the eligibility of health care coverage offered to future part-timers and dramatically raising premiums for many of its full-time workers. Industry observers say the changes could have ...

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  • Top 10 Jobs for College Grads

    Top 10 Jobs for College Grads

    By Lisa Johnson Mandell, Posted May 27th 2011 @ 3:24AM

    They may not be sexy, and they may not sound all that glamorous, but the most important things about jobs for recent college grads is that they're available, they have a future, and most of all, they pay. A recent study shows that specialized health care positions are hot, as are those that involve a left-brain ...

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  • Company Vision Plan Saves Employee's Life

    Company Vision Plan Saves Employee's Life

    By David Schepp, Posted May 26th 2011 @ 12:35PM

    For the past decade or so, employers and employees alike have been stunned by the alarming rise in the cost of health care, which is sometimes blamed on over-treatment -- too many unwarranted tests and expensive therapies. But the opposite it true, too. Some workers never or rarely see a doctor, which means ...

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  • 10 Fastest-Growing Industries

    10 Fastest-Growing Industries

    By CareerBuilder, Posted Apr 7th 2011 @ 5:30AM

    Alina Dizik, Special to CareerBuilder When you're job hunting, knowing which industries are hiring is part of the battle. In the midst of high unemployment in the private sector, some industries are still emerging as safe bets for the coming years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational ...

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