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General News    H4'ed 7/21/09

Depressed? Hopeless? Stop Looking at the Help Wanted Ads

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Ten years after the first job meltdown, the dot bomb/dot con bubble of 2000, this job drought looks worse.

Not only are there no faces to blame like Jack Grubman, Henry Blodget, Frank Quattrone or Dennis Kowalski, the nameless wonks at AIG, Fannie and Freddie still have their jobs! Thank goodness for Bernard Madoff.

Even the help wanted ads are different. (Both of them.

Sure the patronizing and tautological ones are still there.

Ambitious? Hard-working? No, I'm a lazy slacker!

Want extra cash? What do you mean "extra"?

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Martha Rosenberg is an award-winning investigative public health reporter who covers the food, drug and gun industries. Her first book, Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health, is distributed by (more...)
 

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