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<p align="justify">Long lines snake through the halls at the San Diego Marriot. Women dressed in suits and men wearing ties, all holding on to their resumes and hopes of finding a job.</p>
<p align="justify">This is a job fair with 17 companies and schools, including the army and the Border Patrol, seeking to find new recruits, amongst people looking for a career or a career change.</p>
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<p align="justify">Las filas para entrar serpentean por los pasillos del hotel. Las mujeres en traje sastre y hombres de corbata desfilan por entre los puestos de reclutamiento en busca de trabajo.</p>
<p align="justify">Esta es una feria de trabajo en la que 17 empresas y escuelas entre ellas las fuerzas armadas y la Patrulla Fronteriza, que ofrecen oportunidades para jóvenes y viejos en busca de un trabajo una carrera.</p>
<p><strong>City Council President Pro Tem </strong><strong>Kevin Faulconer, and </strong><strong>Port Chairman Scott Peters </strong></p>
<p> San Diegans rightly expect all levels of local government to be focused on creating and maintaining jobs, especially in this period of economic uncertainty. That is why we are united behind protecting thousands ofSan Diegojobs that may be in peril.</p>
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<p> Earlier this month, the President’s jobs bill failed in the Senate. Now the White House intends to break up the bill and gin up sufficient Republican support to pass key pieces. “We will now work with Senator Reid to make sure that the individual proposals in this jobs bill get a vote as soon as possible,” said President Obama in a statement released shortly after the Senate vote.</p>
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<p> We hear a lot these days about the need for “shovel ready jobs” and the lack of them, as well as the “do nothing Congress”. For those who want answers, not excuses, let’s visit some of the places where job preventers work.</p>
<p> First stop: The home of the President of the United States and his Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency. This group steals more jobs and wealth in one week than a corporate jet full of greedy bankers in a lifetime.</p>
<p><strong>America’s Voice</strong></p>
<p> Mientras Barack Obama hablaba ante el Congreso y la nación de la urgencia de aprobar su plan de creación de empleos y las cámaras mostraban la reacción de algunos líderes republicanos que prefieren que el barco se hunda antes de colaborar con este presidente, imaginé qué pasaría si tras las próximas elecciones generales amanecemos con un presidente republicano y ambas cámaras bajo control republicano.</p>
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<p> “When I grow up, I want to be a supply chain analyst.”</p>
<p> You don’t hear these words too often—but I’m hoping that changes fast.</p>
<p> When I was a child, my siblings and I would sit around the kitchen table and tell our parents about the jobs we might hold as adults. My mother bought me a bag with bandages and a toy thermometer. I wanted to be a nurse.</p>