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annleckie: A worldbuilding thing people often overlook is the way that cultures are contradictory without anyone really noticing or acknowledging it. Like “in Xland funerals involve covering the corpse with gold leaf and then making a dozen marble statues...

Today’s release of the – Labour Force data – for February 2014 by the Australian Bureau of Statistics can be taken in one of two ways. Either the strong full-time employment growth and rising participation rate is a turning point and...

by Michael Grabell It’s 4:18 a.m. and the strip mall is deserted. But tucked in back, next to a closed-down video store, an employment agency is already filling up. Rosa Ramirez walks in, as she has done nearly every morning for the past six months...

In this case, the old saying, “Better late than never” really shouldn’t apply. In June, when the government’s Household Survey used to determine the unemployment rate reported that there were 240,000 fewer full-time workers and...

The class of 2013 will face a jobs and career crisis when they graduate. Gary Lapon examines the different dimensions of the crisis--and why it's taking place. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like...