Ohio jobless rate jumps to 10.8 percent
COLUMBUS ? Ohio?s unemployment rate shot up to 10.8 percent in May, a jump from the 10.2 percent jobless rate in April and the highest monthly rate in more than 25 years.
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services released the May rate on Friday,
The New Normal: Can Families Cope With Cutting Back?
The economic recession has changed the lives of millions of Americans, and for two families featured on "Good Morning America," pay cuts and unemployment meant making behavioral and lifestyle changes that weren't easy.
Two financially strapped couples
Google All Set To Launch Flipper
Search engine giant Google is all set to launch a new Google Labs project it calls Flipper. Keep your wild guess on racks, its not another search robot of course. It's anticipated to be a more visual way to read Google News, or to flip through it. What'
Ohio Employment Report: Employee Confidence Rebounds in May
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 19, 2009 ? Despite record job loss throughout the state, the Ohio Employee Confidence Index jumped 5.6 points to 47.4 in May, according to the latest Spherion® Employment Report. The monthly survey conducted by Harris Interactive®
Michelle Obama and Cabinet officers to lead volunteer efforts
...Conservation Corps and others in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. ? Commerce Secretary Gary Locke will help hold a job search clinic at the La Mesita Family Homeless Shelter in Mesa, Ariz. ? Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will help construct energy-efficient...
Wedding traditions on the big screen
June is a popular month for weddings ? and wedding movies. In theaters now are the raunchy hit "The Hangover," in which a bachelor party gets way out of hand, and the new romantic comedy "The Proposal," in which a Canadian executive must marry her
Tech grad hopes to land winery gig - roanoke.com
A recent Virginia Tech graduate is hoping her social skills will land her a dream job -- a six-month adventure in drinking wine and living well in the lush vineyards of Healdsburg, Calif.
And if the popularity of her video application is a clue, she