Tag Archives: recession

Louisville among worst cities to find a job

January 5, 2011 – 3:22 pm

Just days after Mayor Greg Fischer said in his inauguration speech that Louisville is at the top of too many of the wrong kind of lists, the grim economic news continues to pile up. According to Business First, Louisville was ranked among the worst cities to find a job last month, which shouldn’t really be [...]

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Aegon cuts hundreds of jobs in Louisville

December 1, 2010 – 5:38 pm

The city’s jobs market took a big blow Wednesday, with Aegon Insurance Corp. announcing that it is consolidating its Louisville operations that will result in hundreds of jobs being moved to the company’s primary locations. There are currently 400 employees who work at the domed Aegon Center in downtown Louisville, and about 120 of those [...]

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Yarmuth responds to job cuts at Jewish Hospital

March 10, 2010 – 3:37 pm

The economic woes in this lingering recession continue as Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare announced that it is cutting 500 jobs from its work force. The job cuts will result in 250 actual workers being laid off. U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, KY-3, a Democrat, released the following statement: “This is heart-breaking news for the [...]

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Unemployment: The Movie

February 23, 2010 – 2:55 pm

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Lions Gate Films have just released the latest teaser trailer for their upcoming “Unemployment: The Movie” starring Paul Giamatti and Mos Def, each of whom play laid off workers who slowly starve to death in the course of the film’s 586 minutes. According to TMZ, rumor has it [...]

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Recovery Bubble Bursting

February 18, 2010 – 12:17 pm

We’ve been hearing for a while now that the recession is over, that the world is getting back to “normal” in the wake of Wall St.’s Great Train Robbery and that we should just wait for the jobs to rain down like free market manna. A tiny AP story, however, suggests that the opposite is [...]

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Yet More Layoffs…

March 23, 2009 – 1:35 pm

That’s the word at the Lexington Herald-Leader, which has just announced today that it will purge another 15% of its workforce — as part of the overarching onslaught of McClatchy-sanctioned cuts — which brings the grand total of its cut workforce to 476%. I wonder if the atmosphere in their offices (or for that matter [...]

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Yet Another Recession Meme: Coupons or Death

March 18, 2009 – 5:26 pm

Sorry, no assless leather chaps-of-the-apocalypse or Sara Lee’s Soylent Green just yet — however, might we interest you in the best coupons this side of Armageddon? [If so, please leave your credit card/social security/blood type information in the comments section below and we'll get back with you...] That’s right, fellow Recessionistas: WAVE-3′s ignoble “Coupon Club [...]

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