Mr. Crane had been earning more than $100,000 a year operating heavy machinery at Delco, a former unit of General Motors. He worked there for 23 years, since graduating from high school. But when he lost his job he was thrust into a netherworld of part-time gigs: working the registers at Taco Bell, organizing orders at McDonald's, whatever he could find.

"I thought it would be temporary," says Mr. Crane, 49 years old. Three years later, he is selling outdoor furniture by day and pumping gas by night, while worrying about his skills atrophying and spending scant time with his teenage son. He makes about a third of his former pay.

Mr. Crane is part of a growing group of underemployed -- people in part-time jobs who want full-time work or people in jobs that don't employ their skills.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125962111284270397.html


Баранкин, печатай! Печатай родной!!!

два титана современной мысли разродились долгожданными литературными творениями.
( Даже не знаю с кого начать )

WSJ: The Next Youth-Magnet Cities

First Place (Tie): Washington, D.C.
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Government hiring is projected to grow fast, and jobs in lobbying, aerospace, defense contracting and professional services are also a draw. Mr. DeVol calls Washington the national leader in high-tech services, surpassing Silicon Valley. Washington's 4,000-plus nonprofits hold appeal for service-minded youth. And amid rising regulation of financial markets, says Barbara Lang, president of the DC Chamber of Commerce, "much of Wall Street is now moving to K Street."

David Gibson Jr., 25 years old, passed up finance jobs in Charlotte, New York and Atlanta to settle in Washington as a financial analyst for the Federal Reserve. Mr. Gibson, who has an M.B.A., figures the capital, with its many universities, can accommodate him for the long haul, enabling him to pursue a Ph.D. if he chooses. He loves the city's museums and live jazz and R&B venues, he says, and its power-center status is helping him "expand my network world-wide."

That combination of factors, says David Plane, a professor of geography and regional development at the University of Arizona, signals "sustained dynamism" for Washington.
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Не могу комментировать просто... sustained dynamism...

Разрешите поставить для моих друзей из Федерального Резерва хорошую песню!!!

Roman Polanski detained in Zurich

казалось бы причем тут UBS :)

А уж Обаме какая радость!

пока Лих с Ужасом давят читателей интеллектом старикан Доу Джонс прислал приглашение пообщаться с их экспертами на тему trade execution, бухнуть на халяву и посмотреть closing bell на насдаке.

под катом эксперты

( Эксперты )

( Насдак )

Spot on Venus puzzles experts

Space experts are baffled by the appearance of a bright spot in the clouds covering the surface of the planet Venus.
The spot was first sighted by an astronomer on 19 July and confirmed by the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft.
It's thought it might have been caused by a huge volcanic eruption, but astronomers just aren't sure.
Whatever the spot is, it's spreading through the planet's dense clouds.

Another possible reason for the bright spot is particles from the Sun reacting with Venus's atmosphere.

Kay: All right, Beatrice, there was no alien. The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
Jay: Wait a minute. You just flash that thing, it erases her memory, and you just make up a new one?
Kay: A standard issue neuralyzer.

Venus' surface Lava Domes documented by Magellan spacecraft