The Job Hunt
Our weekly look at employment openings with salaries of $100,000 or more.
Good jobs are scarce these days, with roughly 15 million Americans out of work and a national unemployment rate of 10 percent. President Obama tried to address the jobs crisis in last week's State of the Union address by proposing a $33 billion tax credit for small businesses to hire new workers and by calling unemployment the most pressing item on his agenda.
In addition to the federal government's response to the jobs crisis, economists predict that certain industries, such as health care, green technology, education, and government, will grow in the coming years. Each week we scour several job boards--including Indeed, Vault, and Yahoo! HotJobs--to help us track the best job listings with salaries of $100,000 or more. For this week's picks, we've highlighted jobs in new and emerging fields:
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Nancy Cook is a staff writer for Newsweek and Newsweek.com, covering business and economics. In 2010, she and a team of two editors won the New York Press Club Award for Best Business Reporting on the Internet for their seven-month multimedia project called “Jobbed: How America Works Now,” which examined the future of work, careers and the labor market as the country emerged from the recession.
Cook has written about the way the stimulus money affected a single neighborhood to luxury retailers thrilled by record Wall Street bonuses to accounts of rank-and-file employees whose careers were turned upside down by Lehman Brothers’ collapse. She also has reported on politics and economic policy for Newsweek.com’s national affairs blog, focusing on the intersection between Washington D.C. and Wall Street.
Prior to coming to Newsweek, she worked as a producer on the 2008 presidential campaign at National Public Radio and as an on-air reporter for WRNI, the Rhode Island NPR affiliate. There, her enterprise and feature reporting on a lackluster urban school system and a federal lawsuit against the state child welfare agency earned her two regional Associated Press awards. She graduated from Carleton College and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she now teaches as an adjunct professor.
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