First Aldi Stores Open in Florida.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-30 September 2008-First Aldi Stores Open in Florida(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Discount grocer Aldi announced its first 10 central Florida stores will open. Stating that it is known for offering high quality, fresh produce, meats and grocery items at up to...

Belgium's Interim Government Faces Economic Challenges; Many Belgians dissatisfied with efforts to create more quality jobs.
Byline: Cynthia English Synopsis: After lacking a government for six months, Belgium's interim government now must address the nation's ongoing economic challenges, including inflation and unemployment. Forty-three percent of Belgians are dissatisfied with efforts to increase the number and quality of jobs. WASHINGTON, D.C. --...

Health promotion impact evaluation: 'Healthy Messages Calendar (Te Maramataka Korero Hauora)'.
Abstract A health promotion intervention, the 'Healthy Messages Calendar (Te Maramataka Korero Hauora)', was produced by the combined efforts of a number of community groups and provided free to every household in Tairawhiti. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the project to determine if...

Pessimism Clouds Housing Market; Most Americans no longer assume local housing prices will increase.
Byline: Dennis Jacobe Synopsis: New Gallup polling shows a deteriorating housing market psychology characterized by more Americans expecting the value of their homes to decline than to increase over the year ahead. PRINCETON, NJ -- Late last week, the National Association of Realtors reported that...

On the death of the resurrected short-run Phillips curve: a further investigation.
In a recent issue of this journal, Richard Reichel (2004) takes issue with the resurrected Phillips curve (PC) in William Niskanen's (2002) article. Accordingly, Niskanen's reformulation of the PC provides empirical evidence for a weak, but statistically significant, short-run (in the same year) tradeoff between inflation and unemployment rates...

The consortium for employment success: collaboration as a strategy to optimize employment outcomes for people with disabilities.
The data concerning the high unemployment of people with disabilities is stark and stubbornly consistent. People with disabilities have much higher unemployment rates then people without disabilities (Burkhanser & Houtenville, 2003). Many people with disabilities would like to work but cannot find appropriate employment (NOD, 2000; 2004); and when...

Lane County employment declines.
Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard Lane County suffered an expected post-holiday economic hangover in January, with unemployment rates at or near the probable low point of the year, according to the latest report from the Oregon Employment Department. "This is a typical seasonal decline, which...

State small-business index shows small improvement.
Byline: Ilene Aleshire The Register-Guard Conditions are improving for Oregon's small businesses, mainly because of a small increase in the state's unemployment rate, according to LibertyBank's Small Business Index. "We've seen a pretty steady decline in Oregon unemployment rates over the last three years, and...

Unemployment dips in cities, but not for women.
NEW DELHI: The unemployment rate in Class-I cities declined by 2 percentage points for both males and females between 1999-2000 and 2004-2005, from 5% to 3% for males and from 6% to 4% for females. The unemployment rate among males in urban India (as a whole) has declined to...

Feeling motivated yet? Long-term unemployed people's perspectives on the implementation of workfare in Australia.
Introduction A common assumption of workfare programs is that many of the long term unemployed exhibit deficits in motivation to engage proactively in the search for paid work (Wanberg, Kanfer and Rotundo, 1999; Hawksworth, 1992). Such assumptions are based on the proposition that being on unemployment benefits...