Convergys Corp. plans to create 120 jobs within the next two months. These jobs will mainly be based in the company’s Hickory, North Carolina call center. 500 employees currently work at the facility. New employees will provide customer service for an unnamed telecommunications client. The average pay for a customer service position is $9.50 per [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is facing an $80 million budget deficit and citywide unemployment in the 12% range. Enter Austin Beutner, LA’s first Jobs Czar, or more specifically, First Deputy Mayor and Chief Executive for Economic and Business Policy. His first task – accelerate job growth in Los Angeles. Not surprisingly for a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Starwood Hotels & Resorts plans to add more than 12,000 new jobs, the majority of which will be created through the addition of 80 to 100 new hotels slated to be opened this year. About half of those jobs will be located inside the United States, the company said Tuesday. “After a year of hunkering [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 7, 2009
President Obama is giving a speech tomorrow in the wake of his job summit in which he is expected to float the idea of using as much as $200 billion in unspent TARP money for job creation. If approved, it will be up to Congress to iron out the details, but Democrat leaders in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 7, 2009
Structured Solutions Inc., a technology company based in California, is planning to expand into Nebraska bringing with it 200 new jobs over the next three years. The company makes software for banks and financial companies. The expansion will be financed in part by a $600,000 loan from the city of Grand Island. If [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Philadelphia based Progressive Financial Services is expanding operations in Aberdeen, South Dakota. The expansion is being made with the help of a grant of $50,000 in workforce development funds from the state. Progressive’s workforce in South Dakota will double to 150 according to an announcement made earlier today. The jobs pay an [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 21, 2009
In a deal that could have significant impacts on maritime trade on the east coast, Ports America has agreed to invest $105 million in return for a 50 year lease of a maritime terminal in Baltimore. The money will be used to build a 50 foot deep berth and install four state of the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 13, 2009
Chalk another one up to the One North Carolina Fund. Talecris Biotherapeutics, with the help of a $250,000 grant from the state, is expanding its facility in the research triangle and bringing in 259 jobs. The jobs will be filled over a seven year period and the company is eligible for up [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 12, 2009
New unemployment claims dropped off last week, to a seasonally adjusted 502,000. That’s that fewest new claims since the week ending January 3 of this year. Analysts were expecting a higher number, but caution that it needs to fall even further before we will see a true turn around. New claims in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 27, 2009
The White House announced today that the federal government is investing $3.4 billion to modernize the nation’s energy grid. One hundred companies, agencies and other institutions received federal money today. The plan calls for a number of different improvements to the energy grid including improvements to energy production and transmission that will lower [...]
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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