Job openings aren't what they used to be. Among the explanations for the stubbornly high U.S. unemployment rate, factors such as housing troubles and extended unemployment benefits have played a leading role. Increasingly, though, economists and job seekers are identifying another problem: Employers are being pickier, or not trying as hard as they usually do to fill the openings they have.

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As the furor grows over lenders’ efforts to sidestep legal rules in their zeal to reclaim homes from delinquent borrowers, banks insist that they have been overwhelmed by the housing collapse.

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Meet ten Black Entrepreneurs who have turned passion and life experience into thriving business in technology, consulting, sales and more.

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At some schools, more MBA students returned from summer internships this year with job offers in hand. But don't break out the champagne yet.

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What's the best way to find a job when you've been out of work for a long time? Staying focused and determined in the midst of an ever-worsening employment picture is one of the toughest career challenges out there.

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We’ve all been there – you’re staring at your to-do list knowing perfectly well what tasks you need to tackle but completely lacking the will to actually get started.

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Spend or cut? It is a debate that goes to the heart of the post-2008 economic crisis – and yesterday simmering tensions over the two opposing strategies, between a Nobel prize-winning economist and a best-selling economic historian, boiled over again on a stage in South Korea.

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Britain is to abolish, merge or reform 481 semi-independent state agencies to cut spending and help cut its deficit, under a plan that will cost thousands of jobs and change the way many services are delivered.

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The stakes have never been higher for colleges to use the Web effectively. So why can so few barely muster up a passing grade for their Web strategy? The majority of higher education leaders I talk to are struggling to simply keep the digital lights on, let alone differentiate the institution online.

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Outraged by $50,000 sticker prices for college? That's so 2009. At least one college has broken the $60,000 barrier this year. And if colleges keep raising tuition the way they have in recent years, several more colleges will cross that psychologically important price line soon.

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NBMBAA's 3rd Annual Mideast Regional Conference, "Change, Challenge, and Opportunity: Investing for the Next Decade," takes place November 11-13 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The conference will feature leadership development and entrepreneurial workshops, a Diversity & Education Career Fair, networking opportunities and more.

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In late September, the FCC announced it would be freeing up spectrum from television broadcasters and opening it to public use to create "super Wi-Fi."

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While the rumor mill about Apple iPhone coming to Verizon Wireless has kicked into high gear again recently, Apple and Verizon made a surprise announcement on Thursday when they revealed that they had reached a deal for Verizon Wireless stores will begin selling the iPad on October 28.

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Globals is one of those fast-growing Indian IT companies that Westerners simultaneously admire and fear. Founded in 2000, it already has offices in 11 countries and customers around the world. The chairman and chief executive, Suhas Gopinath, is just 24 years old. Most of his employees are also in their mid-twenties.

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Proposed legislation could make it easier for entrepreneurs from other countries to start their businesses in the U.S.

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Applications for jobless benefits rose for the first time in three weeks, evidence that companies are reluctant to hire. Initial claims rose by 13,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 462,000. And the U.S. trade deficit widened sharply in August, reflecting a surge in imports of consumer products.

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We have entered the Age of Austerity. It's already arrived in Europe and is destined for the United States. Governments throughout Europe are cutting social spending and raising taxes – or contemplating doing so. The welfare state and the bond market have collided, and the welfare state is in retreat.

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For years, the investment industry has tried to scare clients into staying fully invested in the stock market at all times, no matter how high stocks go or what's going on in the economy. "You can't time the market," they warn. "Studies show that market timing doesn't work."

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Until now, foreclosed homes have offered buyers an inexpensive entry into the housing market. But the recent foreclosure freeze announced by several big lenders makes pending deals in all 50 states far more tenuous.

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Banking pros haven’t gotten the memo on how much lower their year-end pay will be, a survey says. The new reality: Go back 20 years, when bonuses were about one-tenth what they were last year.

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Yahoo! Inc., which spurned an unsolicited offer from Microsoft Corp. in 2008, is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to help defend against possible takeover approaches, said three people familiar with the matter.

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The Tea Party's small-government slogans may be appealing, but its policies could throw the U.S. economy into chaos.

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Tens of thousands of small charities will soon lose their tax-exempt status under federal law if they fail to meet a deadline for filing a simple eight-item informational tax form that would take them as little as five minutes to complete.

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Clean-tech ideas that have received government funding include using bacteria to make a gasoline-type fuel. Solar proposals seeking funding include sending collectors into space and beaming the sun power back to Earth.

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It’s no surprise that Aaron Andrews has been fond of historically Black colleges and universities all his adult life. He credits the mentoring he received at Morgan State University, where he earned a bachelor’s in physical education, for transforming "an insecure, inner-city kid" into a first-generation college graduate now bringing education to another generation of disadvantaged minorities.

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Getting a degree used to be a stepping stone to limitless career opportunities. Now it's more of a hiatus from living under your parents' roof.

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Despite the unseasonably warm weather in the northeast, the Winter holiday season is quickly approaching. With Halloween costume shopping, Thanksgiving feasts, and Christmas presents, your wallet may already be feeling the burn.

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