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Friday, September 5, 2008
How safe is your job?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The unemployment rate soared to 6.1 percent in August, a five-year-high, as more workers found themselves out of a job. Employers cut 84,000 jobs, evidence that the economy is continuing to weaken, according to The Associated Press.
The Labor Department’s report, showed the toll that instability in the housing, credit and financial markets are taking on the economy.
How secure is your job? Have you recently been laid off? If so, are you actively looking for work? Is it harder to find a job now? Have you had to look at jobs that pay less than what your were making before?
