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Recession-proof your job

Recession-proof your job

Whether you are sitting in your cubicle or standing with co-workers by the coffee machine, you can see as well as anyone that the jobless rate keeps climbing: The workplace isn't as crowded as it used to be.

Marcia Heroux Pounds

Marcia Heroux Pounds

Employers find value in offering training to upgrade workers

December 25, 2008

Baptist Health South Florida was finding too many of its nurse residents were dropping out after they actually got to work with patients.

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Could you live on $275 a week?

Whether you lose a $30,000-a-year job or one that pays six figures, Florida's maximum unemployment compensation breaks out to $6.88 an hour -- and it hasn't changed in 10 years.

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