April 14, 2009 - Forbes
In hard times, metropolitan areas in Texas and college towns hold out the best opportunities for employment.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/14/best-cities-for-jobs-opinions-columnists-employment.html

April 14, 2009 - Kansascity.com
Two labor officials will be recognized Thursday at the annual dinner of the Labor-Management Council of Greater Kansas City: Garry Kemp, business manager of the Greater Kansas City Building& construction Trades Council, and Kevin Sexton, business manager of Cement Masons Local 518.

http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1140540.html

April 14, 2009 Missouri Tigers Examiner

Let's briskly walk through a few notes regarding Missouri football. The Tigers held a scrimmage at Faurot Field on Saturday that consisted of 40 reps per unit, with each of the three offensive and defensive units squaring off at different times throughout the nearly three-hour workout.

http://www.examiner.com/x-1431-Missouri-Tigers-Examiner~y2009m4d13-Former-tiger-receiver-released-by-Kansas-City

April 14, 2009 - The Christian Science Monitor

Experts watch a variety of indicators both subtle and significant-from the sale of home hair-dye kits to the volume of used-car purchases.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0412/p14s01-usec.html

April 14, 2009 - The New York Times
President Obama said on Tuesday that the battered econonmy was showing signs of recovery, be he warned Americans that more pain lies ahead and urged them to help build a foundation for a new, 21st century prosperity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/business/economy/15obama.html?ref=global

April 14, 2009 - The Christian Science Monitor

From the rise of the tightwad to the decline of the Sun Belt, American values and industries will be reinvented as the nation comes out of the worst recession since the 1930s.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0412/p13s01-usec.html

April 14, 2009 - Kansascity.com
Hallmark Cards Inc. told employees this morning that it needs to eliminate between 550 and 750 jobs.

The cuts will occur over the next six months throughout its U.S. workforce.

http://economy.kansascity.com/?q=node/1810

April 13, 2009 - Mediabistro.com
Job seekers and recruiters describe how to advance your media career by putting your best profile forward in the proliferating social network sphere.

http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a10497.asp

April 10, 2009 - CNN.Com/living
With a record 12.5 million people unemployed in today's labor market, it's apparent that now, more than ever before, the people looking for employment must work even harder to ensure that they stand out to employers through their applications.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/04/08/cb.make.resume.stand.out/index.html?iref=newssearch

April 10, 2009 - Kansas City Star

Workers at Lockheed Martin may be headed for unemployment    as Defense Department scraps or reduces some of its costliest weapons programs, including the F-22 fighter.

http://www.kansascity.com/437/story/1135706.html

April 10, 2009 - The New York Observer
It's perfectly understable why Barack Obama's conservative critics would latch on to this week's Pew Research Center report that stated the president "has the most polarized early job approval rating of any president in the past four decades."

http://www.politickerny.com/3015/obama-and-polarization-canard

April 10, 2009 - The Wall Street Journal
In early discussions that began in the last several weeks that apparently included a face-to-face meeting last week, CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer are finally talking about search and also advertising partnerships the companies could possibly strike, said several sources with knowledge of the solution.

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090410/yahoos-bartz-and-microsofts-ballmer-finally-talking-about-search-and-advertising-partnership/

April 8, 2009 - Kansas City Star
The rise of dual-earner families is a double-edged phenomenon. Two breadwinners can increase families' financial  security and protect from the possible loss of a sole wage earner's job.

http://www.kansascity.com/429/story/1128546.html

April 8, 2009 - Kansas City Star
Do you live to work or work to live?

http://www.kansascity.com/429/story/1128534.html

April 8, 2009 - The Kansas City Business Journal
Wyandotte County in Kansas recorded the fastest growth in employment and wages in the second quarter of 2009.

http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/02/09/daily49.html

April 8, 2009 - The Kansas City Business Journal

Companies less than three years old contribute more than 7 percent of employment in Kansas and Missouri, according to a study released Tuesday by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/02/09/daily11.html

April 8, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
After running a community affairs and volunteerism group at Willamette University, Claire Bonilla knew she wanted to pursue a career in helping others. She started out working as an organizational efficiency consultant for Ernst & Young, a Big Four accounting firm. Later she moved to Microsoft Corp., and for the past year and a half, she's been coordinating the software company's relief efforts following natural disasters such as the 2007 California wildfires and the recent Fargo, N.D., floods, among others.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123903394913993361.html

April 7, 2009 - The Los Angeles Times

California is moving quickly to pump $415 million in federal stimulus money into upgrading job training and placement services at employment centers around the state, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Tuesday.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-unemployment8-2009apr08,0,1937488.story