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What New Jobs Would Be Created by the Keystone Pipeline?

Posted: January 16, 2015 at 3:38 pm

Building nearly 1,200 miles of pipeline across the United States is expected to bring about 9, 000 construction jobs to the economy. TransCanada, the company responsible for the project, has already entered into agreements with the major labor and trade organizations, so the groundwork has already been completed to hire pipe and steamfitters, plumbers, pipeline contractors, welders, heavy machinery operators, construction foremen, engineers, and general laborers.

There is some debate as to whether or not these will be seasonal positions that run for a few months, for the two years the project is expected to take, or permanent jobs.

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How to Find a Job Online: A Video Tutorial of MyJobHelper

Posted: December 31, 2014 at 3:13 am

MyJobHelper.com is technically called a “job aggregator.” It collects millions of jobs from tens of thousands of sources, and puts them all in one place where job seekers can search for any job they want, any where they want to work.

Think of In as a very specialized search engine, focused on job postings.

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The Difference between the Unemployment and U-6 Unemployment Rate

Posted: August 10, 2014 at 8:13 pm

Many of us find ourselves a bit confused about the spin put on important issues in the media. One of the areas that hits closest to home is the “unemployment rate” which is sometimes referred to more specifically as the “U-6 Unemployment rate.” Is there a difference between the two terms, and if so, how might that difference affect us?

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