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Linda Young – AHN News Writer
Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – First time jobless claims dropped by 6,000 during the week ending May 28, but still remained above 400,000 mark, signaling continued weakness in the employment sector of the economy. The advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial unemployment compensation insurance claims was 422,000, down from the previous week’s revised figure of 428,000, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Economists say that initial unemployment claims must drop below the 400,000 mark and stay there for the labor market to recover from the massive job losses of the recent recession. However, bringing the unemployment rate down might [...] Continue Reading…

The Media Line Staff
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia David Rosenberg – Saudi Arabia’s latest effort at getting more of its citizens to work is running into opposition everywhere from boardrooms in Jedda to the living rooms in Cairo amid fears that masses of trained and inexpensive expatriate workers will be sent packing and replaced by inexperienced and high-priced locals. Labor Minster Adel Fakieh reignited the controversy over the weekend when he told business executive in Jedda, the country’s commercial capital, that companies would be able to keep an expatriate employee on their payrolls for no more than six years and that some businesses might lose the right to hire foreigners [...] Continue Reading…

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor
Hayward, CA, United States (AHN) – The search for a nursing student who went missing last week in California continued on Tuesday. Michelle Le, 26, was at Kaiser Medical Center in Hayward on Friday when she went out to the parking garage and did not return. She left the hospital during a break in class, at about 7 p.m. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Le was planning a trip to Reno during the Memorial weekend. Her abandoned car was found a few blocks from the hospital. Police told KGO television that there are no signs of foul play. [...] Continue Reading…

Gaza, Palestinian Territory (IRIN) – The lack of job opportunities for young people in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has created an unemployment crisis that could further destabilize the Arab region, experts warn. “The largest generation, which was born in the’80s, has reached working age… young adults are now perceived as the most problematic age group,” notes sociologist and demographer Philippe Fargues, also director of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute in Florence. “Their growth has outpaced the resources available to them, from employment that provides income and status, to freedom, participation, and agency,” added Fargues, who in a recent paper suggested that the [...] Continue Reading…

Applications for Perry County high school graduate scholarships are available at Western Egyptian Outreach office and will be accepted until June 30 at the Du Quoin outreach office.
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Trenton, NJ, United States (AHN) – Trenton Public Schools officials are working to continue bus service for students after transportation workers started a sick-out late in the week. As state budget wrangling continues, the district is moving ahead with plans to privatize its school bus service, contending it could save about $2 million. About half (15) of the district’s 29 transportation workers reportedly called in sick Thursday, though the number was reduced to about a third (9) Friday according to a school official. The 29 are a part of 196 school employees who recently learned they would lose their jobs to reduce the district’s school budget. [...] Continue Reading…

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News
Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Arizona law that fines firms in the state which hires illegal migrants. The law revokes the business licenses of such companies. The justices, on a 5 to 3 vote, rejected the argument that Arizona’s law impinges on Washington’s power to control immigration. In dismissing the arguments raised by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, civil rights groups, labor unions and the Obama administration, the court said states were given that option. Although the 1986 federal Immigration Reform and Control Act general prevents states from imposing sanctions on employers to control immigration, [...] Continue Reading…

David Goodhue – AHN News Reporter
MN, United States (AHN) – Students who struggle with mathematics may be suffering from a neurocognitive disorder similar to people struggling with dyslexia. University of Minnesota researchers say the condition is called dyscalculia. The disorder, they say, inhibits the acquisition of basic numerical and arithmetic concepts. Dyscalculia affects about the same amount of people as dyslexia, but hasn’t received the same amount of attention or research funding, according to the researchers. The researchers detail in their paper, “Dyscalculia, From Brain to Education,” how scientists worldwide have used magnetic resonance imaging to map the neural network that supports arithmetic. In people with [...] Continue Reading…

Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer
Madison, WI, United States (AHN) – A Dane County judge on Thursday suspended the implementation of a law repealing collective bargaining for public employees in Wisconsin on grounds that Republican lawmakers passed it illegally. Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi ruled that GOP senators violated the state’s open meetings law when they passed Act 10 on March 9 on short notice. Under the open meetings law, the public should be given at least two hours’ notice for any public meetings. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, a Democrat, petitioned the court to block the law after Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca claimed [...] Continue Reading…

John Nestor – AHN Sports Correspondent
New York, NY, United States (AHN Sports) – NBA players filed an unfair labor practices charge against the league Tuesday with the National Labor Relations Board. In the complaint the players accuse the league of “harsh, inflexible and grossly regressive ‘takeaway’ demands.” The National Basketball Players Association is seeking an immediate investigation by the NLRB, plus an injunction to stop the league’s threatened lockout of players when the current collective-bargaining agreement expires June 30. The league responded by saying it is working toward putting a new deal in place. “There is no merit to the charge filed by the [...] Continue Reading…