Burnside initially demurred, convinced that he was not up to the job (events would soon prove him right).
But according to Niels Ploug, a welfare expert at the University of Copenhagen and director of Danmarks Statistik, the system doesn't grind to a halt the second someone leaves the country, so it's not unusual that it would have taken a few weeks or so for officials to notice someone had stopped showing up to job events and freeze their benefits.
Any upcoming job events will be featured on the "Career Events" webpage, the link to which is provided on the left side of your session.
When asked later at a green jobs event in Red Hook, Brooklyn, whether he shared Mr. Giuliani's views, Mr. Bloomberg did not answer directly.
Mr. Obama's jobs event captured the political and policy vise now squeezing the president and his party at the end of his first year.
Mr. Obama, his press aides say, did not watch the New Hampshire primary returns, nor did he schedule a jobs event at the White House on Wednesday as a riposte to Republican charges that he hasn't created enough of them.
TUAW did not attend the Jobs event in person, but meta-blogged it to the tune of 639k pageviews.
Although the session was billed as a jobs event, he revealed his real concerns when he concluded with a call for health care reform and energy legislation.
STEVE COLL: Obama leaves tomorrow for Iowa, Colorado and Nevada, I think, to do jobs events.
First, compared to clinically-removed assessments, these "on-the-job" events provide authentic, patient-centered in-training evaluations, which are the cornerstone of undergraduate and graduate medical education [ 25].
