It wasn't until nine months later, still no job, no possibilities and dwindling unemployment benefits, that I realized the activities I enjoyed most were not marketing related.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranks of America's poor remained stuck at record levels, although dwindling unemployment benefits and modest job gains helped stave off what experts had predicted would be the fourth rise in a row in the poverty rate.
The answer is that China is a scapegoat for broader economic anxieties to do with stagnant wages, rising income-inequality and dwindling health and pension benefits.
The 238-year-old institution has recently been buckling under the pressure of massive payments for future retiree benefits and dwindling revenue as more Americans communicate by email.
Even if the current Social Security system is maintained indefinitely, the dwindling of traditional, defined-benefit pension plans means that few workers can count on a financially secure retirement without putting aside money of their own.
When Enron imploded, thousands of its employees saw their retirement benefits dwindle or disappear.
The alternate census data show a 50 percent rise in their numbers, with 44 million Americans in that economic band, where benefits dwindle in sums lost to taxes and child care, and medical expenses mount.
The state sector has shrunk dramatically as a share of the economy, and even those workers still employed by state-owned firms have seen their benefits dwindle.Pension coverage is low: only about 120m people pay into formal pension schemes, fewer than half the estimated 265m urban workers.
Dams have serious environmental impacts, and their benefits dwindle as they age.
Other economic benefits, however, are dwindling as the Western troops leave.
