The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and his wife just bought part of the 76ers

To most of your parents, Will Smith owns the only rap lyric they can reliably relate word for word -- "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" theme. And because everyone seems to know that Will Smith was "born and raised" in West Philadelphia, it makes complete and total sense that he and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, are members of the latest group to pay way too much for an NBA team. The team, as you and your parents would guess, is the Philadelphia 76ers.

Job fair scheduled Oct. 27 at Prince of Orange Mall

The free event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, and is being sponsored by the Prince of Orange Mall and state and local agencies.

The job fair comes at a time when unemployment rates in The T&D Region are hovering around 15 percent.

 “We hope this might remedy it,” said John Timmons, S.C. Department of Social Services program manager. “We are comforted by the fact that Universal Trade Solutions will bring with them 100 new jobs. It is a step in the right direction.”

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Making South Carolina a high-tech hotbed
Some say making South Carolina a hotbed for technology can be an uphill battle because from the outside looking in, the Palmetto State appears to be lagging behind. Tuesday, industry insiders worked to change the high tech picture for the state.

“South Carolina is the tip of the spear in so many different ways around new initiatives that involve technology and is a huge market for growth,” said Mike Carter with South Carolina based tech company eGroup.

Woman Accused Of Throwing Cupcakes At Husband Charged With Domestic Battery

After that, she reached for the box of desserts and directed a fusillade of snack cakes at his head and body, her husband told police. Several of the confections apparently hit their mark, as the man's head and shirt were smudged with icing when officers arrived, according to a police report.

Medicare will cut Social Security’s “raise” in 2012

After two years without an inflation adjustment, the Social Security Administration is expected to announce a 2012 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of more than 3 percent next week. That would be a sizable raise in this economy, and very welcome news to seniors hit hard by rising costs, slumping home equity and very low returns on fixed-income investments.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Calls on Government to Hire All Unemployed Americans for $40,000 Each

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has offered his own $804 billion jobs plan that calls on the federal government to hire the nation’s 15 million unemployed Americans for jobs paying roughly $40,000 each, and bail out all the states and cities facing budget crises.

“Now we’re making some progress,” Jackson said, comparing the legislative gridlock in Congress to the states that seceded from the union during the Civil War.

"We've seen Congress is in rebellion," he said, "determined to wreck or ruin at all costs."

Most Food Stamp Recipients Have No Earned Income

Some 70% of households that relied on food stamps last year had no earned income, a new report shows.

Thieves steal wheelchair of girl with cerebral palsy

Over the weekend, Georgia bandits made off with a family's van with very special cargo within: the
wheel chair of a 9-year-old girl with cerebral palsy.

Without her custom made wheelchair, Aysia Clements is homebound and unable to attend school.
Her parents, James and Batoya Clements, were left with no other option other than to beg for the thieves to return the purple and black chair with their daughter's name engraved on it.




13 Best Job Sites for Baby Boomers

The first step to finding a new job is to look in the right place, and these sites are especially beneficial to experienced workers who are looking to fill a particular niche in the labor market. Take a look at these top sites for the experienced worker -- maybe one of them has the perfect opportunity waiting for you.


Employees Wanted: 10 Middle-Class Jobs That Are Actually Growing

Where did all the jobs go? And where did all the good jobs go?
It's a question 13.9 million unemployed Americans and countless disgruntled workers have wondered since the "Great Recession" began. Most jobs seem to be hiding in the health and educational services, with 544,000 openings as of April 2011.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects that the U.S. will add 15.3 million new jobs between 2008 and 2018, and a whopping 15 out of 30 jobs with the most projected openings and vacancies will pay wages that are above the national median wage for all workers in the United States.


10 Middle-Class Jobs That Will Vanish by 2018
By the year 2018, the manufacturing industry will lose 1.2 million jobs, the mining and oil/gas extraction industry will lose another 104,000 jobs and utility companies will lose 59,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

But outsourcing and foreign competition aren't the only reasons for shrinking industries. The needs of our economy have changed in recent years while companies have become leaner and meaner in order to survive.

Oral Sex May Cause More Throat Cancer Than Smoking in Men, Researchers Say

A virus spread by oral sex may cause more cases of throat cancer in men than smoking, a finding that spurred calls for a new large-scale test of a drug used against the infection.

Researchers examined 271 throat-tumor samples collected over 20 years ending in 2004 and found that the percentage of oral cancer linked to the human papillomavirus, or HPV, surged to 72 percent from about 16 percent, according to a report released yesterday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. By 2020, the virus-linked throat tumors -- which mostly affected men -- will become more common than HPV-caused cervical cancer, the report found.

Record 46.2 million Americans live in poverty, Census Bureau says

High joblessness and the weak economic recovery pushed the ranks of the poor in the U.S. to 46.2 million in 2010 -- the fourth straight increase and the largest number of people living in poverty since record-keeping began 52 years ago, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday.


The share of all people in the U.S. who fell below the poverty line rose to 15.1% last year from 14.3% in 2009. That matched the poverty rate reached in 1993 before falling steadily to 11.3% in 2000. Since then the poverty rate has risen, accelerating after the recession began in late 2007, and is now approaching levels not seen since Lyndon B. Johnson launched the War on Poverty in 1965.

Last year the share of children under 18 living in poverty jumped to 22%, from 20.7% the previous year.

Poverty rate hits 18-year high as median income falls

The report comes as President Barack Obama has embarked on a campaign to boost U.S. jobs growth to shake the economy out of an unemployment rate that has stagnated at around 9 percent for months. On Monday he sent a $447 billion jobs creation bill to Congress, asking lawmakers to pass the bill as soon as possible.


Publisher's Note:

The following are reprints of two articles I'd wrote regarding how families can beat the economic crisis.

Sunday, January 10, 2010
 
BEATING THE ECONOMIC WOES IN YEAR 2010Beating Economic Woes Through Family Unityby Miriam G. Aw

The days when a young 18 year old carted him or her self to college away from home to receive a solid education, thus graduating with a degree in their chosen field with the expectation, or assurance, of getting employed, and earning a decent wage is gone! Long gone!













Friday, March 5, 2010
 
Family Selfishness vs Family Selflessness vs Self RighteousnessIt's Not Looking Good: And It's Not Good Looking!by Miriam G. Aw

Granted, every one of us have the right to choose what to believe, whom to believe, and state our case as to why we believe in an unseen Spirit or God, or in a person that cites self-proclaim wisdom based on his, or her's views of life.

New Mortgage Limit May Set Buyers Back 

FOR most potential buyers, the impending change in mortgage limits is just another obscure wrinkle in federal policy. But for some New Yorkers, it could mean the difference between buying and not buying a new home.
On Oct. 1, when the limit on federally guaranteed loans drops to $625,500 from the current level of $729,750, hundreds of buyers in the city and nearby suburbs will either have to come up with larger down payments to stay under the new limit or face the prospect of applying for jumbo loans — anything above $625,500 — which have higher interest rates.

Hospital Staff Found To Carry MRSA Superbug On Uniforms, Swipe Cards

A new study has demonstrated that potentially dangerous bacteria can be carried around healthcare facilities by hospital nurses and physicians. It has been discovered that 60% of the doctors' uniforms and 65% of nurses' in hospitals do just that. In the study, especially dangerous drug-resistant bacteria were found in 21 of the samples from nurses' uniforms and six samples from doctors' uniforms after 75 and 60 were examined respectively. Eight of the samples had methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which is becoming more and more resistant to current treatments.

Researchers in Israel swabbed nurses' and physicians' uniforms and found potentially dangerous bacteria on more than half of the clothing items after swab samples collected from three parts were analyzed (sleeve ends, pockets and abdominal area). 

U.S. Unemployment: Racing Toward The Bottom

While a Department of Education program embraces “a race to the top,” the nation's current stance toward our 14 million officially unemployed people represents nothing less than a race to the bottom. We are content to report, month after month, unemployment rates in excess of nine percent, to use questionable language to describe tepid performance, and to assuage ourselves with myths that the economy is in recovery because GDP growth is up. Imagine that one of our children came home from school with a report card that showed a drop from a C- to a D, and she reported her grades as “substantially unchanged.” She would, substantially, find her allowance cut, her study hours increased, her privileges restricted. But when high unemployment continues month after month, an unsatisfactory outcome in and of itself, we hear nonsense and platitudes. 

Jobless Rate Rise in Region

Jobless Rate Rise in Region

Area counties saw the largest spike in unemployment across the state for the month of July, placing them among South Carolina's top 10 for joblessness.

Calhoun County saw the largest unemployment rate increase in the state, with its rate increasing 4 percentage points to 16 percent, according to S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce figures released Friday.
The rate shattered a previous record high unemployment rate set in March of last year. The county ranks ninth among the state's 46 counties in unemployment.

Orangeburg County saw the second-largest spike in July, with its rate rising 2.4 percentage points to 17.7 percent. The county ranked fourth in joblessness in the state.  The unemployment rate for Orangeburg County is a near record. The county's rate hit 18.4 percent in September 2009.

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S.C.’s jobless: 'People around here, they're struggling'

In Orangeburg, nearly 1 in 5 are out of work

South Carolina’s jobless rate jumped to 10.9 percent in July, up nearly half a percentage point over June and the highest it has been all year.But if you’re jobless, particularly for the long-term jobless, the rate is 100 percent and holding — and people are frustrated.
“People around here, they’re struggling. People are stealing the manhole covers — it’s just that bad around here now,” said Purvis Richardson, 43, of Orangeburg, leaving the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce office here Friday afternoon with an updated resume in his hand.

“You got people running to these scrapyards, trying to sell anything, man. That’s why you see people tearing up $20,000 air-conditioner units for $50 worth of copper. It’s that bad,” said Richardson, who said he has not worked since 2009, when he lost his job of 10 years at a food-processing plant after “some bad product got out the door” and the blame fell to him.

Orangeburg County’s unemployment rate soared to 17.7 percent last month, according to figures released Friday, catapulting the county from 10th place to 4th place in the state’s unemployment sweepstakes, an honor nobody is trying to win. Only Marlboro, Allendale and Marion counties had higher rates, topping out at 20 percent.

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