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Global Services May 28, 2008 Imrana Khan	Number of Layoffs in the U.S. Touches a 19-Month High Interestingly, the ever-blamed outsourcing became the reason for only 3,576 job cuts in the country. Market conditions, business closing, cost cutting, restructuring, demand downturn and bankruptcy were the major reasons of job cuts in April 2008.
InternetNews April 6, 2004	Overall March Job Cuts Lowest In Nine Months In its monthly job-cut report released today, global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, said the March figure is 12% lower than the 77,250 cuts in February and is 20% lower than the 85,396 cuts announced in March a year ago.
Global Services September 23, 2008 Namita Goel	Demand Downturn: Top Reason for Jobs Cut in Aug. Year-to-date category market conditions also topping the chart even though August witnessed slightly better market condition.
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InternetNews October 18, 2004 Allen Bernard	Tech Job Cuts Leap 60% Announced job cuts in the technology sector soared 60% in the third quarter to 54,701, the highest figure since the fourth quarter of 2003 (82,328).
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Job Journal January 18, 2004	Jobwire California loses jobs in December... State welfare calls go to India... And the latest hirings and firings.
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Job Journal September 10, 2006	Unprepared for Evaporating Labor Pool A recent survey reveals a shocking failure on the part of companies to understand and prepare for a potential wave of retirement that threatens to drain many organizations of institutional memory.
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U.S. Banker October 2009 Barbara A. Rehm	What if More Women Ran Banks? Many of the women being honored in this issue say female CEOs would have had more diverse management teams that would have reined in the institution long before losses began piling up like leaves in the woods on a windy fall day.
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InternetNews August 23, 2006 James Maguire	IT Job Market Looking Good Experts disagree on how optimistic the picture is, but generally concur that the tech industry is steadily creating new positions.
Job Journal June 8, 2008	Huge Increases in Government Hiring on the Horizon Despite the slowing economy, federal, state and local governments have added thousands of jobs in 2008. Federal agencies are expected to fill hundreds of thousands more as droves of government workers reach retirement age. Find the right job for you.
CFO October 1, 2008 Stephen Taub	Can Ex-CFOs Save Freddie & Fannie? Freddie's new Boss, Herbert Allison, once headed finance for Merrill Lynch before becoming CEO of TIAA-CREF. Fannie pins its hopes on David Moffett, former U.S. Bancorp CFO.
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