Greenbrier & Russel Chooses TalentFusion as its Recruitment Process Outsourcing Partner.

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows output per hour rising at a 2.9% rate over the past 10 years, not much below the 1960s postwar high of 3.3%. From the perspective of long-term productivity growth, the U.S. couldn't be much healthier.

New research on mobility, the movement of families up and down the economic ladder, shows there is far less of it than economists once thought and less than most people believe. (Intro article for important new series)

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The Flat World: Iworkwithfools.com

Global: From Chile to Britain and Finland to Malaysia, newspapers that once published in the traditional broadsheet size are switching to the smaller tabloid, or compact, layout. The trend is blurring a distinction between traditionally staid and serious broadsheets and racier tabloids.

Global: Gates calls for end to quotas for guest workers (amazing discussion)

Canada: British Columbia's looming labor shortage.

China: Vice Premier Hui Liangyu said  China will redouble its efforts to create better employment conditions for the disabled.

Ghana: "Graduates from the vocational training centres and the polytechnics should not depend too much on white-collar jobs since the public sector will gradually diminish while the private sector increases in size."

India: Finding a good tech manager is often considered more difficult than headhunting for a CEO.

US: Careerbuilder ads find humor in the workplace.

US: The rapid growth in cell-phone only households is pressuring public opinion researchers to adapt their surveying methods, which are based heavily on telephone interviews of people with traditional landline phones.

CO: Impacts of demographic changes subtle and complex.

NC: Everything from global competition to demanding consumers is pushing businesses to ask more of their workers.

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