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BY KELLEN M. HENRY– MEDILL REPORTS

The unemployment see-saw continues amid uncertainty about when Americans will head back to work, a U.S. Department of Labor report indicated Thursday.

Last week, the number of people filing for unemployment claims rose, while the total number of people filing ongoing [...]

This week on Money Talks, your jovial hosts Siddhartha Vaidyanathan and Joseph Freeman speak with our seasoned jobs correspondent, Leslie Patton.  Because of the recession, stories about unemployment have filled the pages and Web sites of news outlets for months.

Leslie’s stories have taken her all over Chicago and into the lives of many of its [...]

Employers ranked acting bored or cocky as the worst interview offense. (H L Windcrampe/FLICKR)

BY LESLIE PATTON – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

About 21 percent of employers are planning to reduce starting salaries for recent college graduates in 2009, compared with last year, as a result of the hyper-competitive job market, according to [...]

Tenants across Chicago are subletting their units, like one in this Near North apartment building. (SUBLET.COM)

BY KATE SHELLNUTT – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Spring is the peak time for sublet-searching, and with the current economy, more renters are feeling the pinch of that monthly check and offering up rooms in their city digs.

Available [...]

There is hope for the jobless, according to a survey released by CareerBuilder. (khalilshah/FLICKR)

BY LESLIE PATTON – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

The latest read on the number of new people signing up for unemployment benefits provides some evidence that the job market’s downward spiral may be slowing, according to a [...]

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, President Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the G-20 Summit morning plenary session. (London Summit/FLICKR)

BY LESLIE PATTON – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Soon the world will have a plan for how to recover from the economic crisis. At least that’s the idea as the [...]

The recreational vehicle industry continues to drive unemployment up in Indiana's Elkhart-Goshen region. (zsafwan/FLICKR)

BY LESLIE PATTON – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Private sector jobs plummeted by 742,000 in March, according to the National Employment Report released Wednesday by Automatic Data Processing. Medium-sized businesses, those with 50-499 employees, [...]