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Mon Jul 29 23:13:23 2013
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WASHINGTON After a full year of fruitless job hunting, Natasha Baebler
just gave up.She'd already abandoned hope of getting work in her field,
working with the disabled. But she couldn't land anything else, either
not even a job interview at a telephone call center.Until she feels
confident enough to send out resumes again, she'll get by on food
stamps and disability checks from Social Security and live with her parents
in St. Louis."I'm not proud of it," says Baebler, who is in
her mid-30s and is blind. "The only way I'm able to sustain
any semblance of self-preservation is to rely on government programs that
I have no desire to be on."Baebler's frustrating experience has become all
too common nearly four years after the Great Recession ended: Many Americans
are still so discouraged that they've given up on the job market.Older
Americans have retired early. Younger ones have enrolled in school. Others
have suspended their job hunt until the employment landscape brightens.
Some, like Baebler, are collecting disability checks.It isn't supposed to
be this way. After a recession, an improving economy is supposed to
bring people back into the job market.Instead, the number of Americans in
the labor force those who have a job or are looking
for one fell by nearly half a million people from February
to March, the government said Friday. And the percentage of working-age
adults in the labor force what's called the participation rate
fe
Shoppers at a Target store in Brooklyn say a label that listed
the color of a plus-size dress as "manatee gray" was insulting.The label
for the same dress in smaller sizes described it as "dark heather
gray."Target apologized for the label.Michelle Ho, shopping at the store
at Atlantic Terminal Mall, told the New York Post that Target was
"putting down one set of people over another" with the different labels.Spokeswoman
Jessica Deede called the labeling of the Mossimo-brand "Women's Plus-Size
Kimono Maxi Dress" ''an unintentional oversight."She said although manatee
gray was a seasonal color, Target was "fixing the discrepancy." She said
the item was removed from the company website.
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;"> just have a patchwork of bills with
no consistency, said Sean Johnson, the Maryland State Teachers Associations
managing director of legislative and legal affairs.Johnson acknowledged
some issues are best decided on a local level but not in
this case, in which some workers pay for union representatives to negotiate
fair pay and benefits while others do not.Right now, 24 states have
right-to-work statues, which prohibit unions from requiring employees to
join or pay dues as a condition of employment, according to the
National Right to Work Foundation.The right to work has been on the
march for several decades, said Greg Mourad, vice president for the Right
to Work Committee. And Maryland is moving in the wrong direction in
relation to the rest of America.He also said the recent efforts by
governors in Indian and Michigan that made their states right to work
states stunned a lot of people.Mourad said the key points are employees
want freedom in the workplace and employers want to open businesses where
they can treat their employees fairly and they wont be forced to
join unions. The new Maryland legislation is an extension of 2009 legislation
passed by the Assembly -- at the request of the American Federation
of State, County and Municipal Employees that requires all state workers
except teachers to pay the fees.Right now, teachers in Baltimore City and
nine of the states 23 counties already pay the fee, as do
all other state employees
situation is constantly being evaluated. The different international embassies
there are in close touch with each other."Indonesia's foreign affairs ministry
said it was considering a plan to evacuate its diplomats. A statement
released by the ministry on Saturday said that its embassy in Pyongyang
has been preparing a contingency plan to anticipate the worst-case scenario,
and that the Indonesian foreign minister is communicating with the staff
there to monitor the situation.India also said it was monitoring events.
"We have been informed about it," said Syed Akbaruddin, spokesman for India's
external affairs ministry. "We are in constant touch with our embassy and
are monitoring the situation. We will carefully consider all aspects and
decide well in time."Seoul and Washington, which lack diplomatic relations
with the North, are taking the threats seriously, though they say they
have seen no signs that Pyongyang is preparing for a large-scale attack.Kim
Jang-soo said the North would face "severalfold damages" for any hostilities.
Since 2010, when attacks Seoul blames on North Korea killed 50 people,
South Korea has vowed to aggressively respond to any future attack.South
Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Jung Seung-jo had planned to
meet with his U.S. counterpart, Gen. Martin Dempsey, in Washington on April
16 for regular talks. But tensions on the Korean Peninsula are so
high that Jung cannot take a long trip away from South K
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