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41 arrested in UC Berkeley protest
Nov 20th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
A daylong occupation of a classroom building at UC Berkeley on Friday ended with the arrests of 41 students who had barricaded themselves inside to protest budget cuts and steep hikes in student fees...
Valero refinery in Delaware City to close permanently
Nov 20th, 2009 - USA Today
DELAWARE CITY, Del. — Valero Energy said this morning it plans to permanently close its Delaware City Refinery, eliminating hundreds of high-paying jobs, because of weak economic conditions...
RPT-AOL shows worst not over for media job cuts
Nov 20th, 2009 - CNNMoney
(Repeats to additional subscribers) * More media job cuts in store, even as earnings improve * Some hiring seen in cable, digital media * Tech savvy key to job placement...
AOL shows worst not over for media job cuts
Nov 19th, 2009 - Washington Post
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If AOL's announcement on Thursday of another 2,500 job cuts is anything to go by, the painful layoffs that have ravaged the media industry over the past year are nowhere near over. Even though U.S...
AOL Seeks To Reduce Workforce By One-Third
Nov 19th, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
(Adds more background in the fourth paragraph.) NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--AOL plans to cut its workforce by one-third in the coming months as the Internet company continues...

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More layoffs likely in county's future
Long talked about budget cuts became a reality for Spokane County employees on Thursday as 40 to 50 county staffers received layoff notices. County officials say more layoffs are on the way. KXLY4's Tania Dall has more on this story.
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POLL Layoffs Take Heavy Emotional Toll.wmv
Three in 10 Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll say they or someone in their household has lost a job in the past year -- a new high. And the impacts can be devastating: Beyond financial hardship, large numbers report anger, stress and depression as a result ...
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Sesame Street Layoffs
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Layoffs from WikiPedia:

Layoff is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or (more commonly) a group of employees for business reasons, such as the decision that certain positions are no longer necessary or a business slow-down or interruption in work. Originally the term "layoff" referred exclusively to a temporary interruption in work, as when factory work cyclically falls off. However, in recent times the term can also refer to the permanent elimination of a position.

Downsizing is the ‘conscious use of permanent personnel reductions in an attempt to improve efficiency and/or effectiveness’ (Budros 1999, p. 70). Since the 1980s, downsizing has gained strategic legitimacy. Indeed, recent research on downsizing in the US (Baumol et al.