From Breitbart : PITTSBURG, Texas (AP) - Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. said Friday it will cut 3,000 jobs, or about 7 percent of its U.S. work force, as it shuts operations at three of its 32 chicken processing plants. The closures, which will reduce the company’s chicken production by roughly 1...

From Jay Fitzgerald at the Boston Herald : The state is now paying out more money in benefits than it’s receiving in taxes from employers, Suzanne M. Bump, the state’s secretary of Labor and Workforce Development, warned yesterday… In a worst-case scenario, the state can borrow money from ...

I’m encouraged that BusinessWeek concurs with my opinion regarding our economy: The great job bust of 2008 is being felt keenly in communities across the U.S. Few may be suffering more than Greensboro, N.C., one of the South’s most scenic and livable cities and no stranger to disruptive ...