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Cover Letters That Talk

For hiring managers, the age of poring over repetitious, lackluster cover letters and résumés could soon be coming to an end with the advent of video introductions (VINTROs), according to www.HireMeNow.com, a temporary and contract employment marketplace. A survey conducted by the Web site in December of 2007 revealed that over 80 percent of hiring […]

February 19, 2008

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Scholars: Despite Federal Economic Stimulus Package, Blacks and Hispanics Likely to Fare Worse

As talk of recession reached a fever pitch last week, lawmakers scrambled to re-energize a beleaguered economy by approving a $146 billion economic stimulus plan to get tax rebates to workers in May. But some scholars say other measures need to be taken to help minorities, who are being hardest hit by the mortgage meltdown and lack of jobs.

January 29, 2008

MSIs

Appreciation: The Honorable Augustus F. “Gus” Hawkins, 1907-2007

As a freshman legislator, Congressman Hawkins played a major role in writing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination in employment, based on race, color, national origin and religion, and established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He went on to author or co-author several civil rights and education bills, including the Historically Black College and University Act of 1986.

December 12, 2007

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Prominent Black Congressman Augustus Hawkins Dies at 100

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Augustus Hawkins, the first African American from California to serve in Congress and helped form the Congressional Black Caucus, has died. He was 100.

November 13, 2007

MSIs

Perspectives: Empty Promises in the STEM Fields

Are efforts to broaden diversity leading to empty promises of increased employment opportunities in science and engineering? The U.S. Government has been promoting and funding programs since the 1980s to increase the number of American women, underrepresented minorities and persons with disabilities in the nation’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce.

October 2, 2007

Latinx

Contractor Sued Over Alleged Harassment of Hispanic Workers

PETALUMA, Calif. A construction contractor was sued based on allegations that a supervisor referred to workers as “stupid Mexicans” and said “Latinos are the slaves of the twenty-first century,” according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

September 29, 2007

Students

Stingier job market awaits new law school grads

A law degree isn’t necessarily a license to print money these days.

September 23, 2007

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UC-Berkeley Study: Half of Black Employees in Low-Wage Jobs

The unemployment crisis in the Black community has been well documented. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in July that the Black unemployment rate was 8 percent, nearly twice the rate for Whites.

September 2, 2007

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Education, job security focus of New York Governor Spitzer’s `economic security’ plan for working poor

ALBANY N.Y. Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Monday detailed a plan to better help the working poor rise from welfare to the middle class, including lowering the costs and increasing the availability of housing and day care.

August 13, 2007

Students

Adults with low educational skills hamper W.Va. economy

CHARLESTON W.Va. Experts in economics, education and welfare agree: a key to improving West Virginia’s long-struggling economy is developing the state’s “human capital.”

July 28, 2007

Community Colleges

High schoool educators get look at Alabama HBCU’s auto institute

MONTGOMERY Ala. Trenholm State Technical College wants high school educators to know that the path to a career doesn’t always go through a four-year college.

July 26, 2007

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Taking the Initiative

In the wake of Washington State’s passage of Initiative 200, pro-affirmative action scholars call for a new combat strategy

July 14, 2007