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The recession triggered some of the "hypergrowth" in both for-profit and public community college enrollments because they are more likely to enroll adults 25 and older, and laid-off workers often seek job retraining to upgrade their skills, he said.

For-profit colleges see major gains in past decade 2011

While Fox does say the laid-off worker gets a small severance, there are no details about whether the participants will be paid for the series.

Rod Blagojevich Rumored to Join Celebrity Apprentice Cast 2009

Many of these groups will benefit by hiring some of ACORN's laid-off staffers.

Peter Dreier: Why ACORN Fell: The Times , Lies, and Videotape Peter Dreier 2010

The recession triggered some of the "hypergrowth" in both for-profit and public community college enrollments because they are more likely to enroll adults 25 and older, and laid-off workers often seek job retraining to upgrade their skills, he said.

For-profit colleges see major gains in past decade 2011

Earlier this month, city council passed a resolution accepting a $5.1 million federal grant to rehire laid-off firefighters.

Camden, N.J., to rehire 50 police, 15 firefighters 2011

Some laid-off employees become entrepreneurs, working on ideas that have been ignored by corporate bureaucracies, while sclerotic firms in declining industries fail, making way for nimbler enterprises.

How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America 2010

Under a program Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg unveiled on Wednesday, the city wants to invest $45 million in government money to retrain investment bankers, traders and others who have lost jobs on Wall Street, as well as provide seed capital and office space for new businesses those laid-off bankers might create.

NYC Mayor Wants To Spend $45 Million Retraining Investment Bankers - The Consumerist 2009

Several large car plants have recently laid-off thousands, while some of those layoffs led to early retirements, others claimed settlements.

SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 111 2009

Interviews with more than two dozen laid-off professionals across the country, including architects, former sales managers and executives who have taken on lower-paying, stop-gap jobs to help make ends meet, found that they were working for places like U.P.S., a Verizon Wireless call center and a liquor store.

From Sprint Call Center Exec To Baker In Five Years - The Consumerist 2009

Upstate, from Hoffman's Cooper's Town Productions and Entertainment One, focuses on the laid-off Roy Perkins, who relocates his family to rural America to work as a correctional officer in a new private for-profit prison.

Philip Seymour Hoffman Developing HBO Series 2011