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MARK TO MARKET: Employment focus shifts from job growth to wage growth

Many Americans remember the 2007-2009 Great Recession’s impact on the U.S. labor market. Decimated by the fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis, between 2008-2009, the economy lost an average of 360,000 jobs/month. In October 2009, the unemployment rate peaked at…

 

Blue Mass honoring public safety professionals is Monday

Several years ago, Mark Gassen, a member of the Knights of Columbus at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Davenport, was meeting with Davenport Police Sgt. Eric Gruenhagen late one night to help get things prepared for an upcoming…

 

RELIGION BRIEFS

African dinner will help students in Kenya

 

OUTTAKES

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Mississippi hits crest, lingers

The Mississippi River at Lock and Dam 15, Rock Island, was sitting at 17.4 feet at 7:50 p.m. Friday, which likely meant the river had crested or was close to cresting.

 

Students, trade unions work together on Loud Thunder project

To some people, it’s just two remodeled restrooms located near the Martin-Parchert Picnic Pavilion at Loud Thunder Forest Preserve.

 

Holocaust survivor to speak in Q-C

A southeast Iowa town will house Holocaust-era art with a connection to Anne Frank

 

St. Ambrose awards first-ever sales degrees

Joe Kehoe was a man rich in experience when he branched out from being the interim MBA program director at St. Ambrose University in 2009 and began teaching sales.

 

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