President to appear at Ellicott Dredge Enterprises the day after company head testifies in Congress on behalf of controversial oil pipeline. Update: White House refers Keystone questions to State.
Class of 2013, this is for you.
Everyone wants to be flawless at a job interview. But sometimes the best thing to do is act natural and be yourself.
That’s okay.
Tech companies promised to hire graduates of a new San Francisco job training program in exchange for tax breaks. The question is, how do you break into the same tech world that cast you out — or wouldn’t normally welcome you in the first place.
Nice work if you can get it.
What headlines say about the monthly jobs numbers is actually no more accurate than chance. A BuzzFeed original analysis.
Networking like a bosssss.
A dire estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office if the sequester goes into effect. Meanwhile, lawmakers predict the sequester will happen.
From reporting on campaign finance to doing biology, women in a variety of fields have been passed over, underestimated, or even fired for being too attractive.
They’ll rule TV, buy a lot of cell phones, and wear blue.
Display builders at department stores work 60 to 70 hours a week at Christmastime, in freezing windows. And something always goes wrong.
For Obama, a sign of steady growth; Romney argues that it has come too slowly. And the last wild card of the 2012 campaign has now been dealt.
“We’re doing better,” says the Republican governor. Why Romney and Ryan may lose the must-win state.
“Roaring back,” says the president. Aide: “It’s about time he took some credit for that.”
GOProud says gay voters care most about the same economic issues as everyone else. Obama-endorsing Human Rights Campaign says “a tough economy is made worse for LGBT people by the lack of legal protections.”
He’s also been offered dates, sexual acts, and drugs.
The Democratic Party used the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this week to make a nearly-united statement on LGBT issues, including marriage and military service. There was one dissenter, and he led the gathering’s closing prayer.
The August jobs report released this morningshowed the economy gaining a disappointing 96,000 jobs. While running for Senate in 2004, then state senator Obama twice dismissed and criticized a Bush jobs reporting showing a gain of over 300,000 jobs.
Republicans ready to pounce.
Will.I.Am, noted economist and auteur behind “My Humps,” took to the stage at the Democratic National Convention and fixed the economy.
A rhetorical milestone appears to be in reach.
Crossroads GPS — the advocacy group founded by Karl Rove — announced the start of a major television spending campaign over the next month. The ads will air in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia and address the nation’s debt and the slow economic recovery.
Some are hailing Anderson Cooper’s decision to come out as a smart career move, but many fields have yet to see their first openly gay man or woman.
You only had to do one thing. And you couldn’t even get that right.
“Has there ever been a president so out of touch with the middle class,” the Romney campaign asks.
In a press conference in Washington, Obama offers up a gift to Republicans.
Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter says Romney is trying to use two different sets of rules to evaluate his record in Massachusetts and President Obama’s record in the White House. Campaign asks supporters to “email this video to your grandparents.”
Without losing your current one first.
Between 2000 and 2010, a third of all job growth for men has been in female-dominated fields like nursing and dental assisting, which has led to some interesting role reversals. Says one male dental assistant, “The way I look at it is that anything, basically, that a woman can do, a guy can do.” Image via alephcomo/Shutterstock.com
