unemployment and layoffs

AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, a Hunt Valley company known for its "Shadow" spy drones, has laid off 24 employees, officials confirmed on Thursday.

The management of the Sheraton Baltimore City Center warned the state Tuesday it expects to lay off the majority of its workforce by the end of May and the large Fayette Street hotel could close entirely.

The University of Maryland, University College announced Friday that it would lay off 70 employees because of declining enrollments.

Maryland lost 600 jobs in February but also saw its overall unemployment rate trimmed to 5.7 percent, in part thanks to a downward revision of much steeper losses reported in January, according to new estimates from the U.S. Department of Labor.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) employment projections from 2012 through 2022 what Americans already know: The nation is in a structural unemployment crisis, and the outlook is bleak.

More than two months after Congress allowed federal unemployment benefits to lapse, tens of thousands of out-of-work Marylanders are hoping a bipartisan deal to restart the program will win approval when lawmakers return to Washington this week.

Verizon Wireless said Friday that it is adding more than 100 retail and customer service jobs in Maryland, a move that comes on the heels of plans to cut about 380 jobs at a Hanover call center.

Maryland General Assembly was wrong to decide that now it the time to give the wealthiest 3 percent a $431 million payoff

Maryland's employment base shrank by nearly 10,000 jobs in January and grew at a much weaker pace last year than originally estimated, the federal government said Monday.

Federal employment is expected to drop sharply in the span of a decade, government projections show, as budget cuts and retirements begin to reshape the workforce.

Philanthropic groups, including the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation, will collectively spend $200 million on programs intended to help young black and Hispanic men as part of an initiative President Barack Obama will announce at the White House on Thursday.

Maryland government officials should try to get more economic ripples from the Wallops Flight Facility — just over the line in Virginia — by capitalizing on space tourism and the potential from unmanned aircraft, according to a new study.

Government funded jobs would benefit the breadwinner, his or her children and the Baltimore. Work skills of the long-term unemployed would not atrophy, and those of all participants would increase. Their children would have a brighter future in school and life, and Baltimore would reduce some of its infrastructure and social service deficits. A training component, such as that contained in the apprenticeship model, should be part of each job so that people can achieve mastery in an occupation

Star, executive producer still finds inspiration in Shakespeare, theater, mentor Jack Lemmon

With her seeing eye dog by her side, Denna Lambert works to help ensure that up-and-coming scientists and engineers with disabilities can see a future at NASA.

The editors of several local Patch websites were among a large number of employees reportedly laid off by the news media company nationwide Wednesday under a "restructuring" by its new owner.

Maryland employers added 7,300 jobs in December, boosting the state's annual job creation to the highest figure since 2004, the federal government estimated Friday.

By failing to extend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, Congress has cut off the jobless benefits to millions, including 82,600 people in Maryland. Unconscionably and irresponsibly, Congress continues to sit on its hands. A minority of U.S. Senators continues to block any extension, while the majority leadership of the House of Representatives won't even bring it up for a vote. The president has said that extending EUC should be the nation's first order of business for 2014. To

Representatives of a school bus consulting firm presented an extensive study of Harford County Public Schools' transportation system to the Board of Education Monday, a study that included the consultants' support of unpopular cutbacks school officials made to transportation for the current school year.

Claim that unemployed get discouraged when benefits are cut is outrageous

Maryland's economy might do better this year than last year — and then again, it might not. It depends on which forecast is most prophetic.

The Baltimore County school system is eliminating the positions of 108 technology teachers from elementary schools next fall, saying it is time to move away from the model of teaching technology in a computer laboratory.

Unemployment and the minimum wage

Macy's will lay off 2,500 workers and close five stores, none in Maryland

Unemployment benefits do not breed laziness; extending them is the least Congress can do until jobs are available