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(Jan. 21) -- President Barack Obama will soon have to make the ultimate outsourcing decision: Should NASA farm out the job of carrying astronauts to space? Since the Space Age began in the 1950s, U.S. astronauts have blasted off on government rockets. Now Obama is mulling whether NASA crews should instead hitch a ride into orbit aboard space taxis designed and ...

  BRUSSELS -General Motors Co.'s Opel unit will cut 8,300 jobs across Europe, including 4,000 in Germany, and close a plant in Antwerp, Belgium — casualties of the "tough reality" of a shrinking European auto market. Opel head Nick Reilly said Thursday that the Antwerp plant had to go, with the loss of 2,606 jobs, because the company needs to shed ...

Jobless claims unexpectedly jumped 36,000 to 482,000 for the week ending January 16. The U.S. Labor Department qualified the report, saying the data was skewed higher by a backlog of claims stemming from the year-end holiday period. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News had expected jobless claims to total 440,000. The four-week moving average for initial jobless rose 7,000 to 448,250. Meanwhile, ...

  The Labor Department reported this week that the number of Americans filing initial claims for unemployment insurance spiked by 11,000 to 444,000 in the week ending Jan. 9. That was discouraging news, but at the same time the four-week moving average of initial claims continued to drop, reaching its lowest level since August 2008. Also the number of continuing claims--people ...

  Not surprisingly, the latest unemployment report has elicited all sorts of hand-wringing over the future jobs' picture for today's workers. Former Labor secretary Robert Reich told USA Today that "We're going to have high unemployment for the next few years," and that "even when the jobs come back, they're not going to be very good jobs." Newsweek's Rana Foroohar recently ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In another sign that the labor market is not out of the woods yet, the number of job openings fell again in November, according to a government report released Tuesday. With 15.3 million people out of work and employers hesitant to hire, job seekers still outnumber openings by more than six to one, the greatest differential since ...

  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Hospitality provider Starwood Hotels announced Tuesday that it plans to create 12,000 new jobs worldwide in 2010, increasing its staff by more than 8%, with about half of the new positions located in the United States. Starwood (HOT, Fortune 500), which employs 145,000 workers at hotels in more than 100 countries, said a majority of the ...

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Job openings hit new lows in November, down to 2.415 million from 2.571 million in October and 3.311 million in November 2008  There were 6.35 unemployed people for every open job in November, a record high. The figures show the intractability of the unemployment problem. The economy lost another 85,000 jobs in December, but the number of available jobs continues to grow, ...

In a move that indicates consumers may be worse off than the economic pundits think, Sam's Club, the discount warehouse chain owned by Wal-Mart (WMT), is closing 10 U.S. locations and cutting 1,500 jobs. "Despite the outstanding efforts of Sam's Club Associates, these Clubs continued to lose money and we have decided to close them," wrote Sam's Club president and CEO ...

  WASHINGTON -The competition for jobs is intensifying as companies are reluctant to hire new workers, leaving millions of unemployed Americans chasing fewer job openings. There were nearly 6.4 unemployed workers, on average, for each available job at the end of November, according to Labor Department data released Tuesday. That's up from 6.1 in October and a record high. There were ...

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is pleased to announce that The Honorable Raymond “Ray” LaHood, U.S. Secretary of Transportation; The Honorable Randolph J. “Randy” Babbitt, administrator, Federal Aviation Administration; The Honorable Charles F. Bolden, Jr., administrator, NASA; Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander, U.S. Air Force Space Command; and Ken Bowersox, vice president, astronaut safety and mission assurance, Space ...

  President Obama has announced the award of $2.3 billion in Recovery Act Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States. The 183 projects in 43 states that were awarded the funds are expected to create more than 17,000 clean energy jobs through the domestic manufacturing of advanced clean energy technologies including solar, wind and efficiency ...

  TOKYO -Troubled Japan Airlines Corp. and the state-backed corporate turnaround body responsible for the money-losing airline's restructuring will decline cash offers from Delta and American Airlines, a report said Sunday. Instead, they will only seek a greater business cooperation with either Delta Air Lines Inc. or American Airlines, the business daily Nikkei said, citing no sources. The turnaround body will ...

Not much. But the Department of Labor reports that the average number of minutes unemployed Americans are spending looking for a job each day is 18 minutes. What can those 18 minutes possibly translate into? Checking one job board, making one phone call, connecting to a few friends and colleagues online, or maybe zapping out three or four resumes to potential ...

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We've waved goodbye to the first decade of the new millennium, and hopefully we've seen our last of a sour economy. It's a new year and we're ready for a change. Fortunately, many companies feel the same way and they're ready to hire plenty of new talent in 2010. Health care was one of the few industries to grow in 2009 ...

At the Adult Entertainment Expo four years ago this month, I passed through the security checkpoint at The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas -- and was struck by the sheer volume of people. The porn industry's annual convention had packed more than 30,000 attendees into two exhibit halls. It was nearly impossible to move around, or have a conversation, let alone ...

Foot Locker, Inc. will close 117 of its stores -- mainly Foot Locker and Lady Foot Locker locations -- in the coming weeks as a result of an organizational shuffle. In a move to streamline management, Foot Locker U.S., Footaction, Kids Foot Locker and Lady Foot Locker will be run by Richard A. Johnson, who was president and CEO of the ...

  WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Friday announced that it would offer $2.3 billion in clean-energy manufacturing tax credits to 183 companies, seeking to renew its emphasis on domestic economic issues after two weeks spent focused on terrorism. The biggest winners were companies tied to the solar industry, including Hemlock Semiconductor Corp. and Wacker Polysilicon North America LLC. Brand-name companies ...