Earlier this year Karin--a 2008 graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law who asked that her last name not be published--was laid off by a New York City law firm six months into her job.
Economists at RBS said the latter reading, the lowest since early April, was encouraging even if a chunk of the decline can be laid off on post-Hurricane Irene effects and seasonal factors.
General Dynamics NASSCO, a major ship design, construction and repair company, mailed warn letters to about 1, 040 employees in San Diego, Norfolk and Mayport, informing them that they could be indefinitely laid off in April -- at the end of April through the summer, due to the possible cancellation or delay of maintenance and repair work and uncertainty created by sequestration.