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The lack of a paycheck isn't stopping some people from showing up for work. CNBC reports that some people have started working for free. In a trend that is both alarming and possibly illegal, some companies are relying on the free labor of their recently laid off employees or hard up recent...

For most people, the chance to move from a decrepit and unsafe home to a spanking new, state-of-the-art home, would be a dream come true. But tell that to the inmates at San Quentin prison. For them it's a nightmare proposition. In early May, Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California, floated...

I graduated from Penn State with a finance degree in 2002, just eight months after Sept. 11. Jobs on Wall Street and in the financial industry were scarce...less so than now, but I remember it was no fun time to enter the workforce. So, fearing rejection I did what many of my scaredy-pants...

With more people being unemployed, you'd think more would be volunteering. After all, with all that free time, and the fact that the volunteer work would look good on a resume and might lead to a job, volunteering is a good way to spend some of those extra hours. While an astonishing 26.4% of the...

It's a tough job market out there, which has led to fierce competition for any opening. In order to stand out, job seekers have to get creative. One recent MIT graduate, KyNam Doan, has decided to donate 6 hours of his time for every interview he lands up to 440 hours over the next 2 years. For...

Are you caught up in the holiday race to see who can spend the most money and reap the most toys? If you have mistakenly found yourself dedicated to the consumerist side of the holidays you might be missing the boat. What has been lost in this yearly drive to create joy via the purchase of consumer...