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John was 39 when the bad news hit: His department was being moved offshore. Since joining the company ten years earlier, he had worked his way up to a solid position in middle management with a decent salary and great benefits. Now, he was out of a job.
Having spent his entire adult life in corporate positions, he knew he could go job hunting. But this was the third time he’d had a “secure” position shot out from under him, whether through downsizing, restructuring or other reorga… Continue

EW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The hemorrhaging of American jobs accelerated at a record pace at the end of 2008, bringing the year's total job losses to 2.6 million or the highest level in more than six decades.
A sobering U.S. Labor Department jobs report Friday showed the economy lost 524,000 jobs in December and 1.9 million in the year's final four months, after the credit crisis began in September.
The unemployment rate rose to 7.2% last month from 6.7% in November - its highest rate since Janua… Continue

More bad news in the world of data security: Companies aren't just losing more of their customers' private information than ever before. Customers are also losing patience with those increasingly common breaches.
According to a report released Monday by the Ponemon Institute and funded by encryption firm PGP, the cost of a data breach for companies has risen to $202 per lost record, up from $197 in the institute's 2007 study. For the 47 companies audited in the study, those costs added up to $6.… Continue