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Behind your holiday sweet potato dish, hard work in the fields
More than half of America's sweet potatoes were lifted by hand from the soil of North Carolina. It's some of the most back-breaking farm work to be found, and migrant laborers do most of it.
This holiday season, retailers will be wishing for more workers
U.S. retailers are looking to add more than 700,000 jobs this holiday season -- about the same as last year. But retailers may have a harder time filling those jobs because of a shrinking labor pool.
What's driving job search addiction?
Amy Lindgren, a career counselor, has identified a new trend: People who are job hunting on a daily or weekly basis, even though they are comfortably employed.