Northrop Gruman, the aerospace company behind the stealth bomber and the F/A-18 fighter, announced that it is moving its corporate headquarters from Los Angeles to Washington DC. Northrop currently employs approximately 27,000 people in Southern California but says only a handful of corporate jobs will be moving, leaving the rest of its operations in [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
23 states saw an increase in their jobless rate last month. 43 states lost jobs in September while only 7 states saw an increase. Because the unemployment rate does not count long term unemployed who have stopped looking for work, several states lost jobs but saw a drop in the unemployment figures anyway. Nevada [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 5, 2009
Washington DC laid off 388 school employees, including more than 200 teachers, on Friday. At the same time, struggling security company Hawk One, which supplied security guards for the 127 public schools in the district, went out of business. Schools in DC opened this morning without security guards and short on staff as [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 3, 2009
The Justice Department is directing more than $12 million in stimulus funds to the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, to create or preserve 50 law enforcement jobs. The money comes from the Community Oriented Policing Services program, or COPS. The city received the largest allowed grant, due to high crime and rampant unemployment [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 2, 2009
The Washington, DC City Council will debate a proposal to cut a summer youth jobs program from nine to six weeks. Last year, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty extended the six week program to nine weeks, and directed the city to provide employment for any person aged 14 to 21 who wanted one. Critics say the city [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 10, 2009
The Corcoran Gallery of Art is cutting 18 jobs at its museum and art school, and will offer free admission on Saturdays to boost attendance. The layoffs affect senior managers and entry-level jobs, and represent 5% of staff. The museum also is extending a hiring freeze, and will suspend contributions to employees’ pension plans. None of the [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 21, 2009
Washington, DC Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has proposed eliminating 1,632 government jobs, as well as raising fees on parking meters, emergency phone service and business licensing. Fenty laid out a plan to lay off 776 employees, with the rest of the cuts covered by attrition and the elimination of vacant jobs. They include 250 positions in [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 14, 2009
A District of Columbia program that invests in small businesses to create jobs for Washington residents has yielded just 31 new jobs at a cost of $76 million, according to DC Auditor Deborah K. Nichols. The Certified Capital Companies program, or CAPCO, is managed by the Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking. Over five years, investment money [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Virginia has posted its first-ever year-over-year negative job growth. The Virginia Employment Commission says statewide employment in December was 3.8 million, down 0.8% from the same month in 2007. Job growth even stalled in Northern Virginia, the Commonwealth’s strongest-performing region. The Commission says there were 1.324 million non-agricultural jobs in Northern Virginia in December, down 0.1% from [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Forbes.com has published their list of the 10 Best Cities for Job Growth. If you’re interested in the rationale, read the original article. You have to sit through an idiotic and unnecessary slideshow to see the cities — so I’ll just list them: 10. Dallas, TX (unemployment rate: 5.6%) 9. Houston, TX (5.4%) 8. Seattle, WA (5.3%) 7. Baltimore, MD [...]
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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